5.2 Tales of Tales, on a Train, Heading South

Hello — Song by Paul Williams — “Nice to Be Around” — An interstitial episode — On a train — Family trip — Cup of coffee — Wooden stirrer — Second album — Tales from the North, Book I — 12 pieces — Piano duets — The nature of the album — The primary function — Introducing the pieces into the world — One rendition — For others to perform — Not mimicking actual performances — In the digital realm — In no way “definitive” versions — Liner notes — Not pre-empting — Professional performers — Virtual version of a piano from Abbey Road Studios — Spitfire Audio — Mrs Mills Piano — Bright and loud — Lacquered hammers — Lovely quality of detuning — Nice tang — Limits I set for these renderings — Soft and loud notes on this piano — Transparent results — All kinds of pianos — Tack pianos, honky-tonk style… — Overall volume — Concert grand piano — What some composers have done — Vertegrand — Upright piano — Artistic sensibilities — To demonstrate — Chopin nocturnes and preludes — Interpretations — Text notes — Bandcamp — This piano integral to the composition process of these pieces — Pro Tools — Preferred way of working now — Working directly with the final sounds — Sheet music — An Iceland Symphony — Musical notation — Notation app Notion for iOS, iPads — At a remove from what you want to hear — Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) — More flexible — Better choice — Piano roll interface — Classical music — Faster and better — Horizontal lines — Grid resolutions — Freedom to experiment and make changes — Having the music live — The upshot — Sheet music coming — Something else coming — Thousands of notes to notate — Ownership and copyright — Books — Reasons for self-publishing — Full control — David Lynch — Final cut — Absurdity — Movie example — Editing — Painting — Announcement (Jämsä) — Knowing when something is 100% how it should be — Publishers — Co-creations — Nothing wrong with it as such — Covers — Back cover descriptions — Advertising — Likeminded souls — Horrible covers — Many happier cases — Depends on the individual — Amalgamations of intentions — Pain only starting — Any artist at some point starts to know — Commercial writers — Responsibility — Not about ego — Can’t betray that inner voice — Otherwise distorted — At Dawn: Early Short Stories — Amazon — The earliest of the stories from 2001 — The searching years — My most special things — Magazine anecdote — What would happen then? — In this day and age — 1950s or 1940s — Ray Bradbury — The world has changed — Legwork — Agents — Heartbreak and pain — Tunnel — Sleep aid — Long excursions into wildly peripheral matters — A great purpose — In real life as well — Relationships — Gift of sleep — Learned from Northern Exposure — Bernard — Chris Stevens — Good advice potentially anywhere — Blessings — Office jobs — 3rd anniversary episode with Pierre Estève — YouTube — Mangling — 1st of June — Lake episodes — 10 minutes of your life you’ll never get back — The music of nature — The music of the train — See you soon