Champagne Location Recording

08/22/2024

08/18/2024

Back in Nashville, Indiana, recording a couple of concerts for ChamberFest Brown County.

10/03/2023

Tonight's office.

09/12/2023

Messiaen in Nashville! Cam 2/4 FTW

08/14/2023

Alpine Flowers: Celebrating 17th Century Composers from Germany and Italy

03/29/2023

I find this production objectionable for a number of reasons; for one thing, this is not how musicians behave. Are they being held against their will in a film studio? Who records a piano that way with no microphones? How does that garage sound like a recital hall? Why are they dressed up without an audience? When does artificiality become so excessive that it turns art into garbage?

In a nutshell: this is not a performance; it's a music video.

Music and musicians deserve recordings that honor them, not ones that ignore them and instead pile on outlandish, irrelevant fluff. This video is absurd.

Recording is now available: https://bc.lnk.to/schumann_romancesFAThe Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94 is a composition by Robert Schumann. In this v...

03/27/2023

STARMETAL

03/26/2023

Packing up after a recording this afternoon, something shiny on the floor caught my eye, and I wondered if a flutist forgot part of their instrument. I welcome your thoughts on this matter!

03/04/2023

This was taken right before the quintet left

10/12/2022

Lovely recital by last night at !

09/15/2022

A recent project for which we were able to do a bit of nice lighting. Please enjoy! https://youtu.be/7R3WQuVrF04

We are excited to share a recent project celebrating the incredible music of Teresa Carreño. We are thankful for for creating the video, and Nur Slim for helping to produce it! Check it out and let us know what you think.
https://youtu.be/7R3WQuVrF04

08/04/2022

More recording for our Hovhaness project. I love this space, these musicians, and this music!

03/21/2022

Look as good as you sound.

03/21/2022

A big, fun day recording audio of the Amity Trio performing composer Nur Slim's opera "Lucrecia y el Canto de los Dudasaurios."

That’s a wrap! #🦖🦕

03/19/2022

Natural horn and fortepiano session with a dramatic upstage key light.

03/13/2022

I invested in an advertisement in a high school musical program. (Idea stolen from Erik Satie.)

02/27/2022

It's been a busy few weeks, and now that things have relaxed a bit, I get to record a lovely voice recital!

12/30/2021

One of the most important and basic human connections is made through the eyes, and my favorite angles from which to visually capture a musician make it possible to occasionally catch the performer's gaze. The camera's height can be consciously used to promote a natural, human-centric perspective.

11/12/2021

Wonderful recital tonight by IU Jacobs saxophonist Brandon Trent and pianist Tristan Leung.

10/12/2021

I really enjoyed working on this project with Deepti and TEDx Bloomington!

There are two kinds of people responsible for the extinction of cultural diversity - ones who give up their culture consciously/subconsciously and others wh...

09/26/2021

Very proud to share this lovely performance by the wonderful Soma Quartet! (I recorded it, by the way!)

Arr. Ito Yasuhide

07/27/2021

Here's something beautiful.

We kindly invite you to support Playing For Change and access free downloads and exclusive videos: http://bit.ly/JoinAndSupportPFCWe are proud to release a ...

07/22/2021

Tonight I'm recording a wonderful Beethoven and Chopin program by pianist Taka Kigawa as part of the Greencastle Virtual Music Festival (which isn't all that virtual any more)! Here, Taka's joined by cellist Eric Edberg for Beethoven's op. 69 cello sonata, and it was an absolute triumph. Huzzah, Taka and Eric!

06/09/2021

Back at the wonderful Gobin Memorial UMC in Greencastle, Indiana to record Claude Cymerman performing a set of Tristan fantasies.

05/17/2021

Here's the promised excerpt from my recording last February of a recital by pianist Awadagin Pratt. What a deeply moving experience this was! I hope you enjoy it.

Awadagin Pratt plays Frederic Chopin's Nocturne, Op. 62, no. 1This is an excerpt from the recital I produced for pianist Awadagin Pratt for the Music Teacher...

05/08/2021

Today, I'm making a recording for Soma Quartet, a terrific group of saxophonists from IU Jacobs School of Music, in a very interesting church here in Bloomington (First United), which has a really wonderful and rather challenging reverberant response. I've come to rely on the Cascade X-15 stereo ribbon microphone for qu**ky getting a nice ratio of direct and reverberant sound here.