Nine Pieces for Nine Pianos is featured on this page. This spring an art project "Play Me I'm Yours" consisting of 14 pianos was placed around Austin, Texas. So, in keeping with the spirit of our local slogans: "Keep Austin Weird" and "Live Music Capital of the World", I chose nine locations and composed a short piano piece for each one. Then on a Thursday morning I put on a tux, put two video cameras in a backpack, hopped on my bike, and performed each piece in a circuit around Town Lake. Austinites were very friendly. It wasn't strange at all to see someone playing live music downtown, but riding a bike in a tux down the hike and bike trail earned me some sideways glances!

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Austin, Texas- The Live Music Capital of the World,
where we like to Keep Austin Weird!

I am an Austin area musician and composer. I made this film while performing on many pianos that were part of an art installation "Play Me I'm Yours". I thought, when am I ever going to get the chance to play a piano "right there" again? Of course, by the time the "artists" got to the pianos many were covered with glued beads, silent notes,  missing black keys (do you know how hard that was?) and even wet paint! So overdubbing was definitely necessary, but made for some nice editing! The film captures visually the beauty of the Austin downtown and the diversity of its people. Of special wonder to me is hearing an oasis of piano music within the sounds of the city.




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Distinctly Austin: Keeping Austin Weird with ambient piano preludes performed in the Live Music Capital of the World on pianos placed around downtown. Breathtaking scenery and beautiful music.

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Spring Has Come [1:52]    Album only
Tango Solo [2:44]    Album only
Water [1:47]    Album only
If it Has to Be [1:52]    Album only
Halfway Across [2:01]    Album only
Once was Love [2:49]    Album only
You Can Do Anything- Even Play the Piano! [1:19]    Album only
Lover Lost [2:37]    Album only
Facing the Wind [2:25]    Album only

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