Jazz Piano Cafe

Felicity Rubinstein writes in the Times Online (click here to read article) about her experiences taking a jazz improvisation course with her son. She writes: Unless you play to concert standard, which I don’t, the piano is a lonely instrument. Jazz offers more of a chance to play with other people. […] But here’s the…

I wrote a new composition tonight. It’s really slow and quite peaceful, but has quite a bit of sadness. I guess I was inspired by reading the first part of the graphic novel “The Dream Hunters” (the Sandman series) written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano. I’ve made a little recording of my…

Last night I wrote a very simple song, and made a pretty silly and quick recording of it using various synthesized sounds. A warning: this is not my best work, but I thought I’d share it anyways in case anyone might like it. It’s better to think of this recording as a rough sketch of…

Last Tuesday I played a gig on piano with Mark White (bass) and Greg Murray (drums). I’ve posted the entire show on my web site. It was at the Happy Honda dealership in Burnaby for the unveiling of their 2008 models. My favorite tunes from this batch are “Day in the Life of a Fool“,…

According to a CBC radio program I heard this morning, a pathetic fallacy is when in writing you attribute human emotions or intentions to non-human things. I find this device is especially effective in the Linkin park song Valentines Day: “And the clouds above move closer / looking so dissatisfied”. Actually I have really enjoyed…

I’ve launched RobotPoetry.com, which features poems written with robots, read by robots. Click here to listen to the poems.

Found an article “Hacking Perl in Nightclubs” (click here to read) by programmer/musician Alex Mclean who states that he has been using his computer, and a language called Perl, as his exclusive musical instrument for the past few years. From the conclusion to his article: This might all sound like a rather strange and tortured…

I had a two-keyboards jam with a coworker at lunch yesterday and we made a song in honor of our workplace. It’s a kind of electronic bluesy experimental track. > Click here to listen to “Business Objects” by Greg Coppola and Geoff Peters (MP3, duration 2:10)

Tonight I sat down at the piano and wrote a pretty sad song. It’s called One Dance. It’s kind of nostalgic. I recorded it on my electric piano. > Click here to listen to “One Dance”, 1 minute 47 second MP3 As always, comments are appreciated!! Email me at geoff@gpeters.com