Melsen's Piano Log

March 2015 - Day 25

This is the last piano I played on the first day I ventured out to play street pianos. It was a baby grand sitting out in front of the MFA, and it was decorated with an easel and tubes of paint!

March 2015 - Day 24

My friend Maggie was dancing to this improvisation. You can see a video of this and many other street piano performances on YouTube.

March 2015 - Day 23

For this one, I focused on a left hand melody with right hand accompaniment to start. I think it has an eerie quality.

March 2015 - Day 22

I recorded a few piano logs today - here is the first! More to come throughout the coming week...

March 2015 - Day 21

Spring has come! And there are only ten days left of March! This is a recording from 2012, when I didn't have a home acoustic piano to play. My Casio keyboard really saved the day during those months when I wanted to keep playing.

March 2015 - Day 20

This piano had no working damper pedal! So I made the best of it. What follows is a very upbeat, staccato improvisation, with many sequences. Sequences can be very satisfying!

March 2015 - Day 19

My second recording from the South Station pianos. I had at least a couple spectators - you can hear them in the background!

March 2015 - Day 18, part two!

I launched into this jaunty tune. Seemed very appropriate for South Station. There were actually two pianos set up next to each other there, which was unique.

March 2015 - Day 18

I'm releasing two recordings today: this first one is tiny - it's just a clip of a woman I met who had been hanging out at the South Station public piano for multiple days, hours a day. She was trying to amass signatures for a petition to save the pianos. I wonder what became of that?

March 2015 - Day 17

Here is the rest of that improvisation I posted yesterday. This one is much longer. I think there are many cool sounds that emerged...enjoy!