Rediscovered an album I haven't listened to in forever. Helen Callus playing #Bach's cello suites for viola. She really did a beautiful job. I went through a major #JSBach phase a few years ago. This album ranks up there. Well played and very well recorded. I do not know what kind of reception this album received in 2011, but I hope Ms. Callus got the credit she was due.

#Viola #cello #ClassicalMusic

Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Lontano by Anja Lechner / François Couturier, released on ECM in 2020.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"On Lontano, the cello of Anja Lechner and the piano of François Couturier play the roles of scenery and camera. As the lens bends the light into a discernible image yet changes that image in the process of fixing it within a frame, Couturier funnels Lechner’s sunbeams laden with stories that can only be heard with the eyes (and vice versa). If such a description seems too cerebral or even bogus, it’s only because the music it seeks to capture doesn’t accompany it...

If the “Praeludium” tells us anything, it’s that awakening in this scenario can only take place when there is both sun and dew. Otherwise, the dawn might have nothing to kiss as it peers over the not-so-distant mountaintops."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzH-IirTlWg&list=OLAK5uy_nM46CBBtIzhmVrlrGlNHHQVLaHC5MvGkE

#AnjaLechner #FrancoisCouturier #ECMReviews #ECM #Music #Cello #Improvisation #Jazz #TyranGrillo

Yamaha

Japan Technology

Many of you only know Yamaha from a few of their skillsets.

Yes I said skillsets not products.

Yamaha has specialists in many fields

They create wonderful things in the fields of

• Music
• instruments
• woodwinds
• brass
• trumpet
• tuba
• saxophone
• bass
• alto
• tenor
• sopraan
• sopranino
• strings
• Bass Guitars
• acoustic
• electric
• Guitars
• violins
• ContraBass
• cello
• recorders
• Audio
• tape decks (Pro Open Reel)
• turntables
• cassette decks
• radios
• receivers
• transceivers
• Pro Audio
• Mixing console
• multiple channel
• from 8 to 32 analog
• FOH mixing console
• stage mixing console
• compressor
• limiter
• equalizer
• microphones
• dynamic
• condenser
• PA speakers
• passive
• active
• floor monitors
• FOH speaker systems (full sets)
• passive
• active
• subwoofer
• studio monitor
• amplifiers
• class B
• class D
• Bass guitar enclosures
• Bass amp heads
• guitar enclosures
• guitar amp heads
• Display systems
• [data]
• Mechanics
• engines
• motorcycles
• RD 400 2 stroke Daytona
• mopeds

With the subjects I just mentioned I only covered the surface of what Yamaha specialists can produce with their skillsets

If you purchase a Yamaha Grand Piano, Yamaha goes so far that when you've chosen it (in person!) they deliver install, secure and tune your grand piano, so your experience is similar to what their musicians and technical building experts have (had) when building and playing the Grand.

Yamaha has perfectionists who live and work by the principle of Kysen. They will tune and tweak their sublime work so it becomes even more sublime. Yamaha specialists gurus and experts do this in all fields that Yamaha is in.

Images & photographs

As you see I've included photographs of an 8 channel Yamaha portable mixing system, designed for micro live performance, with a build in two channel class D amplifier, and a set of dual driver speakers / monitors, which I use when I need balanced physical PA speaker output, that my sets of headphones cannot produce, in the studio, simply because the physics in combination with the acoustics prohibits such output.
The system is tuned to the space, thus is small.
It delivers a balanced flat sound up to 90dB of SPL in the this closed real world setting, if needed (though that is rare)
This level has been measured (and is regularly done). I do this to make sure I don't overload my ears with dB thus damaging my precious engineering organs

Yamaha in my personal and Pro live

Yamaha plays an important role in my professional PA live.

• I have mixing consoles made by them, which blow all others just plain out of the water, when I chose those Yamaha consoles.Note 1
• microphones
• dynamic
• condenser
• speaker systems
• full range
• monitors (floor)
• subwoofers

In my musical live Yamaha plays an important role too. I have instruments ranging from the humble recorder to

• string instruments
• brass
• many others, too many to specify here

Note 1
Naturally I have specialized mixers from other brands which do an excellent job. Yamaha does not make those, so I have no fields of comparable parameters

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#Yamaha #instruments #technology #mathematics #physics #brass #trumpet #trombone #saxophone #alt #tenor #bass #sopranino #sopraan #string #piano #bass #cello #doublebass #woodwinds #flute #Audio #PA #console #mixer #speaker #passive #active #amp #compressor #limiter #eq #equalizer #parametric #graphic #analog #digital 🎶 ##Retro #Legacy #current #Analog

The French Album
Johannes Moser, Andrei Korobeinikov

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1871242280?l=en-US

#classicalMusic #appleMusicClassical #commute #cello #piano #chamber

I have written a little arrangement of "Comptine d'un autre été: L'Après-midi" (aka "the Amelie song" by Yann Tiersen), for a mixed ensemble (flute, piano, violin and cello), in the rare case someone needs one tomorrow (I actually needed it):

https://musescore.com/user/79969672/scores/32576243

#amelie #yanntiersen #arrangement #sheetmusic #flute #piano #violin #cello #ensemble #chamber #chambermusic

Track 305 — Tenacity (199th unique emotion)

The quiet refusal to stop. A cello ostinato walks through the entire piece — never stopping, never rushing. Other instruments come and go. The cello keeps walking.

C minor · 66 BPM · 2:16

One track from my 200th unique emotion.

#AIMusic #ExperimentalMusic #Cello #Ostinato #Tenacity #CreativeAI

https://archive.org/details/aeon-track-305-tenacity