Go Play Project – Week 2
This week I dealt with a bout of the flu, drove my son back to college, got back to my full teaching schedule….OOOPS. I FORGOT! This is a no-excuses piano year. And I’m happy to say, even with the exciting Denver-Pittsburgh game on in the next room, I managed to meet my self-imposed Sunday night deadline and uploaded my piece for the the second week of the Go Play 2012 Project. As I mentioned before, I’ve made it my New Year’s Resolution to learn (and record) one piece a week during 2012. The best part of the project is that I can choose whatever I want to play!
This week’s piece is Moszkowski’s Etude Opus 72 No. 6 in F major, a piece Horowitz compared to an “after dinner mint.” I call it one of my Twitter Pieces because I first heard about it through James Rhodes, one of the many fine pianists I follow on Twitter. His tweets about piano, practicing and a musicians life have motivated me to sit down and pull out some of my old favorite pieces as well as assemble a binder of music that I’ve downloaded from IMSLP including this etude.
Anybody care to join me in this one-a -week by-the-seat-of-your-pants recording project?
I love your “go play” project! I think I would like to do this, but I would record monthly, not weekly. What devices and software do you use to record and edit your performances?
Thanks for listening Rhea. My recordings are very simple. I’m using my ZoomH2 recorder set on a table off to the side of the piano. And then I import the sound file into Audacity on my computer. The only editing I do is cutting out noise at the beginning and the end when I get up and down from the piano bench. There I convert the file to MP3, save it on my computer, and upload it to SoundCloud. Very easy. I’d love to be able to hire someone eventually to make better quality recordings but for now, it’s strictly low-budget. Hope to hear your monthly recordings!