Well, I had my last day of regular class today, an Ethics lecture with the legendary, highly knowledgeable, and ever-so-sweet Thomas Nagel, who is sans hyperbole perhaps the greatest living philosopher. I’m still a little star-struck in his class. This being the last lecture, wrapping things up as neatly as possible for an undergrad philosophy course, it ran a little long and his last words to the class were, simply, “Well, looks like there’s no time for discussion. So long.”

The class applauded thunderously.

I’m not sure why but as I was leaving NYU’s Silver Center this song from Pal Joey started boppin’ around my brain, and I began humming it, then singing it outright to myself, and felt compelled to find a piano and hammer out the tune as best as I could remember.

And so begins, with the last scheduled lecture of the semester as two weeks of finals loom ahead, the second installment of my impromptu-iPhone-piano-covers-to-avoid-work series, Procrasti-Covers.

#music #livemusic #brooklyn #nyc #goodbye #blue #piano #monday #nyc #openmic #ny #newyork (at Goodbye Blue Monday)

I can’t believe anyone ever thought this was a practical ad that would make someone want to buy a synthesizer… not to be generalizing but are pick-up truck-type people really also electronic/experiemental/otherwise synth-oriented music people?

(Source: kanndennliebesynthiesein, via nprmusic)

atelierdguarneri:

Gyorgy Cziffra’s Chopin warm up

(via dude-will-doo)

Practicing my keyboard & synth parts for the Solid Goold show tonight at Webster Hall (from several days ago — I’ve got it down now!)

The Sidewalk offered me a gig, my ‘secret’ recording project is getting off the ground, and I just played a grand piano in the middle of Washington Square Park, drawing a crowd of what not-exaggeratedly seemed over a hundred people

Me. 

jukeboxtheproblem:

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(Source: breakmyheartonsunnydays, via eyeballsinthedarkness)

Found a snowy spinnet piano on the street. Friends helped us rescue it. This is what New York is about. (at 243 E. 18th Street)

dude-will-doo:

ladies and gentlemen

bill evans is singing

bILL EVANS IS SINGING “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”

AND GIGGLING

This is the greatest.

musicnerdery:

realsoon:

Heh

symphonyofthecosmos:

me

Welp.

Same. 

Also, sidenote: I’ve never quite been able to figure out… is he supposed to actually be playing a toy piano, or is it just an artistically drawn absurd really small regular piano?

(Source: mulady)

musicnerdery:

iammichellewilliams:

… . fill in the blank! Eager to hear.

get back to playing the piano the way I used to.

Same. Regarding getting back to previous piano prowess.

I’m signed up for a two-credit piano lesson next semester, so I’ll HAVE to, right?

catoholic:

 “I can be alone anywhere.”  — Glenn Gould

(via dude-will-doo)

For The Spinto Band’s upcoming 2013 release “Cool Cocoon.” 

Their first single from the album is up for streaming on SoundCloud today:

duderonymusbosch:

My New Sounds: 

Obnoxious Dissonant Minimalist Piece Called “Obnoxious Atonal Minimalist Piece Called Let X=X”

in which I recite words while playing notes