Perfomance Thread

[James H.]

For the record, if I had a quality microphone I'd be recording projects left and right as my playing abilities allowed - but right now I'm stuck. I think it's great to play new music and try and set myself to a standard of perfection because I don't accept crap recording. Sorry to those guys I promised recordings to - I just got cut off. I had three things going pretty good, too... :iffy:

[James H.]

Checking the quality of my laptop's built-in microphone. Not bad, but not exactly something I'd record a CD with.

Me playing Bach's Prelude and Fugue in Bb major from WTK. Thoughts/criticisms are welcome, I just learned the fugue this week and the prelude last week, so they're not perfect yet. Still a rough log to carve!

Bach Prelude and Fugue in Bb.mp3 - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

[Ferkungamabooboo]

Yeah, I'd do stuff for "free" (really swapping) to get recordings. My Firepod fried out though, so I'm kind of limited.

[James H.]

New recordings!

First up, Bach Prelude and Fugue in Bb again. I hope to have weeded some issues out, have a listen, let me know if you hear an improvement!

Bach Prelude and Fugue in Bb - take 2.mp3 - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

Second, the first two of a three movement Mozart Sonata in F. Other than I need to take it a bit slower, I'm open to comments and criticisms. =]

Mozart Sonata in F major.mp3 - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

I just performed the Bach last week at a piano recital and the faculty decided I was good enough to play for the entire music department recital. Rarely do freshmen make it to departmentals, let alone first semester. Well, I played the prelude and fugue perfectly at the piano area recital, but in the middle of the departmental I lost myself in the middle of the fugue and sorta composed a few measures and wandered myself back to another point and took another shot at it from a halfway point of sorts. Of course, once the first memory lapse occurred, many more little ones happened out of nerves. It was quite horrible and embarrassing.

Lastly, the Sarabande from Debussy's Pour le Piano suite. I think it needs to relax a bit.

Debby - Pour Piano - Sarabande.mp3 - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

[gameman144]

I love this idea, and I am offering my services as a French Horn player (also electric bass, if anyone for some reason needs that too :P )

[Jem7]

Hello guys,

I need a good skilled trumpet player who can play funk/soul style and has decent recording setup. Please contact me quickly.

[ZachV]

I can play viola, guitar and some piano, also if you need a bass vocalist, i could try....

Is it possible to record full blown soundtrack orchestra works via this method?

[benxiwf]

Saxophone-own alto and soprano right now..College mused graduate. Play at a pretty high level. Mostly have experience in the classical realm but also jazz.

also have some guitar chops.

[Jem7]

Also you can add me to mixing masters section. I can mix any kind of stuff.

[sabiansoldier]

Flautist- in music college so have ready access to pianists, violinists, guitarists,, basically most other western instruments. Also percussionist.

[ZachV]

I need a female vocalist with a good voice for a rock ballad,

PM Me if you think you can do it :D

[jawoodruff]

Any pianists available?

[Gardener]

Depends on how hard to play the stuff is!

I can play in stuff on a Steinway grand piano and I now also have some decent mics, although the room the piano is in doesn't sound too great (much too small). The main limit is therefore my lack of virtuosic skill! But I'm certainly willing to give it a try. What is it?

P.S. I'm also available as a hornist btw. I haven't found optimal mic positions yet (horns are really annoying in that respect…), but I'm sure I can find something suitable.

[jawoodruff]

Well, I'd love to have a live recording of my Inclinations. I spoke to the composition director at the college I'm transferring to and I'd love to have those as part of my portfolio. There not to difficult I think.

[Gardener]

Sure, I can give them a try. I haven't looked at them too closely yet, so I'll see how it goes.

Just a few questions, after a first glance: In number one there's no tempo, no dynamics, articulation, pedal markings etc. Is this intentionally left open? The other preludes are clearer in this respect, although they also omit some information at times (dynamics, pedal usage etc.), which is totally legitimate of course - just wanting to make sure that you -want- this to be not strictly determined and are ok with the fact that it will be interpreted as I see fit :P

Oh, and in the prelude on 6 notes you have a "ped." at the end of bar 2 which is never released. Intentionally? Also, in the same prelude, the trills: Are they common diatonic trills in "D-major", so to speak? (i.e. half tone trills from C# and F#, whole tone trills from the other notes.) This would be in line with your six notes, so I assumed that's what you wanted. Although: You also have a trill on an A, which will obviously give you a note that isn't in your selection of 6 (B [or possibly Bb]). Do you want that?

P.S. Oh, and be prepared for me playing some things a bit slower than you might want it.

[jawoodruff]

Right, where I've marked those things.. I want them. The remainder of it, I want the pianist to lend their own artistic expression (generally, with pedal markings... I almost always follow that rule.) That's mainly cause I'm not a pianist!

I tried to do the trills keeping in mind of the notes that are within the set.

[Gardener]

I tried to do the trills keeping in mind of the notes that are within the set.

That still doesn't tell me how to do the trill on the A in bars 19 and 20. B or Bb? As far as I can see, neither are in the set.

I assumed the set was: C#, D, E, F#, G, A

This also leads me to asking whether all the high C's are actually meant as C's and not as C#'s.

[jawoodruff]

My apologies... Bb. I mainly want that as I wrote above in my note above the stave: clear but becoming a bit muddied. I wrote the trill there cause its simplest way to write it. Basically, I want the right hand to do sort of a gliss but not really a gliss... I want those notes to lose their significance. If that makes sense - I just didn't really know how to write it.

[JijGaat]

Are there still people wanting to help each other out by performing pieces as a "virtual" orchestra? I am really curious if it is possible to create small or even larger ensembles.

As performer I can play the classical guitar at (in my opinion) a very good level. I can also sing tenor/bass voice (not low bass parts though). I am really curious if there are any singers/instrument performers still willing to colaborate.

I am wanting to have some pieces performed, but can't really say if it is possible to play it seperately and mix it together as one piece.

As for now, I am just curious if we can create a group of people wanting to help each other out in which we play parts for other people, and compose music that can be played by everyone. This would mean that if we get experienced, we can actually create a virtual orchestra, or at least an ensemble that can perform pieces for everyone wanting to have a piece performed!

I hope to hear from you guys.

Kind regards,

Hugo

[Misha]

Alright, I might be on way to post in a wrong place, but I trust mods will be glad to move this if I missed the thread.

I would need a violin to do this in 78 1/4 bpm:

(an repetitive array of a_b² a_b³ a_b² a_b¹ in 32nds, then g's and f#'s etc)

But am unsure whether that counts as generally possible. What do you think?

[James H.]

Yes, but depends on who is playing it. University orchestra or really good high school orchestra. It would be a pretty high position (7th), and the fingering is 1 (A string) 4 (E string) 2 (G string). Notice that there has to be a gap - the D string has to be skipped entirely, so this could only work with some sort of détaché pattern, mostly likely spiccato. I would mark dots. Also, down bow on the bottom and top string, up bow on the middle makes this an easier figure to play, but that would mean starting this with an up bow, which will mess people up metrically, because the lowest note will invariably get the accent. I would suggest shifting this so it starts with the lowest note in each group (or possible the highest) but not the middle. Keep in mind, octaves like this are not easy to tune.

[Misha]

Thank you very much for the response.

As it seems, it is better to avoid setting this task before a single violinist. Since the original work is a piano quintet, a better solution would perhaps be to dump whatever violin II is doing and to divide this on two violins.

[mikeeasley]

I'm into bass and drums. Glad to see good people with talents here :)

[Der Klavierspieler]

I play Piano quite well. I can also try to play my 'Cello. :)

[athalia_orea]

I Play Guitar :)