Recording

Yesterday's recording went very well. I arrived at about 9:30 and the piano was set up on stage and ready. Lars Rehnberg, sound recording engineer, and Pat Connelly, friend and wise word man met me a little later. By about 11:30 mics were set, and Lars was getting almost what he wanted.  Reset the mics, and we got started. By 3:00 we were done. Amazing. The shortness of the session is due to my own preparation, practice and patience, and the technology of this piano.

For those that don't know, the Yamaha Disklavier Pro can record and play back my performances. For a while now I've been recording almost all of this piano music digitally. For the recording session, then, I played all of the pieces, but some were pre-recorded MIDI files stored on a drive and recalled when Lars was there to record the piano. Nine foot concert grand pianos must be one of the pinnacles of human creative engineering. It's amazing to play and hear this instrument.

Here's a video of the recording session, thanks to Pat Connelly who took the pics:



Peace,
~Bill