Youtube homepage: http://www.youtube.com/user/LolaAstanova
This is a very passionate young pianist with amazing skills, power and speed. She's also good in composition. The following two are in the style of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, which in her words, is a kind of music joke of distorted baroque/classical arrangement.
Here's her version on Rihanna's "Don't stop the music":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqorloj2YZY
I can listen to this many times without stop, without feel bored.
Another one of her version on Madonna's "Music":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pfeohQSaS8
Rachmaninoff Moment Musicaux No. 4 in E:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPEd8AZX5dQ
Lola was born in former USSR. She started learning piano at 6 and began on-stage performance at 8. She received MS in piano major from Rice University and now resides in New York.
Other very good young female pianists include Valentina Lisitsa and Valentina Igoshina. But I'd prefer Lola Astanova.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Adiemus
What is "Adiemus"?
It's the title of a series of albums by British composer Karl Jenkins.
See wiki page on Adiemus.
I like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8kZ-iVk90
I have heard this music at a bookstore but couldn't find out what music it was.
Now I know.
It's the title of a series of albums by British composer Karl Jenkins.
See wiki page on Adiemus.
I like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8kZ-iVk90
I have heard this music at a bookstore but couldn't find out what music it was.
Now I know.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Some pop songs on guitar
Take Me Home Country Road (John Denver)
Yesterday Once More (guitar solo, Vocal by Carpenters) (Richard Carpenter, John Bettis)
Edelweiss (From Sound of Music)
Romance Of Love
Green Sleeves
Red River Valley (solo1, solo 2)
Canon in D (solo 1, solo 2) (Pachelbel)
龙的传人
青春
同桌的你
Also lots of songs by 罗大佑, e.g., 童年
Yesterday Once More (guitar solo, Vocal by Carpenters) (Richard Carpenter, John Bettis)
Edelweiss (From Sound of Music)
Romance Of Love
Green Sleeves
Red River Valley (solo1, solo 2)
Canon in D (solo 1, solo 2) (Pachelbel)
龙的传人
青春
同桌的你
Also lots of songs by 罗大佑, e.g., 童年
Monday, December 15, 2008
FAERIE'S AIRE and DEATH WALTZ
What supernatural sheet music!
Page 1, Page 2.
Another link, which contains the midi performance of page 1.
See more scores of this kind.
Page 1, Page 2.
Another link, which contains the midi performance of page 1.
See more scores of this kind.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
A little nightmare music
Very funny performance.
Here is a 7-minute trailer to A little nightmare music
By the Igudesman and joo: Aleksey Igudesman & Richard Hyung-Ki Joo.
Here is a 7-minute trailer to A little nightmare music
By the Igudesman and joo: Aleksey Igudesman & Richard Hyung-Ki Joo.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Audio Editting
Audacity is an open source software used widely for audio editing.
Audacity use the LAME MP3 encoder to convert audio files into MP3 format.
See "Where Do You Create and Share Your Audio Files and Remixes?" at youtube for relevant suggestions.
The following are my current steps from collecting raw recording to compile into audio and video:
1) Digital voice recorder is first used to record the sound into wav format. The raw file is rather dry. This can be seen from the "ocean mist" wave shape when played in windows media player: one only sees some very small individual mist peaks, instead of the normal wide and abundant mist.
2) Open this raw file in Audacity and export it into MP3 or WAV format. Then the wave shape becomes normal. Audacity has the function to remove white noise, but trying it doesn't show that the effect was actually good due to sound distortion, so I gave up.
3) After this, windows movie maker can be used to incorporate the audio into a video, which can then be uploaded to youtube. In this step, one should use the audio file exported from Audacity. Using the raw file would result in plenty of noise, and sound quality totally screwed.
However, it should be noted that seems the automatic "processing" function of youtube would trim the video to remove silent ending. This leads to the loss of the last chord in the second version above, which appears in the end after a while of silence. That's bad. The solution is to add some variation to the end. Since the sound cannot be changed, an end title page can be added (change font color to be the same as background, so words won't show).
Audacity use the LAME MP3 encoder to convert audio files into MP3 format.
See "Where Do You Create and Share Your Audio Files and Remixes?" at youtube for relevant suggestions.
The following are my current steps from collecting raw recording to compile into audio and video:
1) Digital voice recorder is first used to record the sound into wav format. The raw file is rather dry. This can be seen from the "ocean mist" wave shape when played in windows media player: one only sees some very small individual mist peaks, instead of the normal wide and abundant mist.
2) Open this raw file in Audacity and export it into MP3 or WAV format. Then the wave shape becomes normal. Audacity has the function to remove white noise, but trying it doesn't show that the effect was actually good due to sound distortion, so I gave up.
3) After this, windows movie maker can be used to incorporate the audio into a video, which can then be uploaded to youtube. In this step, one should use the audio file exported from Audacity. Using the raw file would result in plenty of noise, and sound quality totally screwed.
However, it should be noted that seems the automatic "processing" function of youtube would trim the video to remove silent ending. This leads to the loss of the last chord in the second version above, which appears in the end after a while of silence. That's bad. The solution is to add some variation to the end. Since the sound cannot be changed, an end title page can be added (change font color to be the same as background, so words won't show).
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