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Your turn: help blind musicians have music to read

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Wed, 10/09/2013 - 11:34

Did you know that blind musicians are just as capable as sighted musicians? Of course you did! Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles made sure of that. But they didn't have to read music to achieve their success. Blind musians who need to read notes, to play Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart, need scores in braille format. Guess what? These scores don't exist in adequate numbers. Blind musicians give up on their ambitions to study, not because they can't play, but because the world hasn't provided them the scores they need to read.

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Open Source Music - Video from the DrupalCon Session

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Sat, 09/28/2013 - 20:14

The "Bach to the Future" session at DrupalCon Prague was fun, and a success, I think. Together with my wife, pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, I presented the concept of open source music, showed how Drupal is enabling the MuseScore project to thrive and treat musical scores as semantic content, and gave a demonstration showing the cool things you can do with digital scores and live performances. Kimiko Ishizaka played a selection of pieces from the Well-Tempered Clavier on the venue's Steinway grand piano, and it was a lovely way to start the final day of DrupalCon.

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The Open Well-Tempered Clavier: Bach for everybody

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Sat, 09/21/2013 - 20:55

I have come to love the music of J.S. Bach more than I thought would ever be possible. Every day when I listen to music, whether on iTunes, Spotify, or drawing from my CD collection, I am saddened that the one recording that I most desperately want to hear is not available to me. That's because it doesn't exist yet. The recording I so yearn for is Kimiko Ishizaka's recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier. She has found a level of profound beauty in these 48 pieces that is breathtaking. I can hardly wait for the world to hear it. Please support us in making that a reality by backing our Kickstarter project. Thank you!

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New DVD Trailer: The Fractal Zone

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Fri, 08/16/2013 - 22:30

Landscape Windscreen has released a second trailer for the "Project Goldberg: A Fractal Journey" DVD. There's still time to back the project on Kickstarter and order your DVD or HD download of the video. Enjoy!

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Last weekend I took Kimiko Ishizaka to the greatest geek event I've ever been to

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Sat, 08/10/2013 - 20:29
Observe. Hack. Make. That was the name of the event that drew over 3,000 people to a pasture in northern Holland last week. Every attendee is considered a volunteer, and the atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration is palpable and refreshing. So was the utter concern with the state of privacy, freedom of speech, human rights, and the future of the internet. The conference started off with an address - delivered remotely - by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and it just got better after that. Here's a selection of some of my favorite titles.
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I found Edward Snowden - he's on stage in Moscow

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Sat, 08/10/2013 - 18:54

I think I found Edward Snowden. He's on stage at the Moscow conservatory and - who knew? - he plays the best damn Chopin Etudes you'll find on the internet (or in the record store). Wait, it says his name is really Vyacheslav Gryaznov, and in my opinion he's a bigger deal on the piano than most of the popular names you see people raving about. See for yourself.

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Bringing Bach to DrupalCon and beyond

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Mon, 08/05/2013 - 23:38
Open Source Bach. It was an idea so simple yet completely audacious that it made the front pages of BoingBoing and Slashdot, was written about in Wired, The New Yorker, F.A.Z., Spiegel, La Stampa, and brought together a diverse team that included a publisher, a piano manufacturer, and a notation software company. At the center of it all was pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, my wife and muse.
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100 Goldberg Variations - The Unboxing

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 09:35

On a cold winter day in Germany, I received two boxes full of music. These are the last Open Goldberg Variations scores to be delivered to the project's backers. They're quite beautiful. You can order yours directly from the GRIN website.

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Kimiko's Goldberg Variations CD

Submitted by robertDouglass
on Mon, 09/03/2012 - 22:04

It's official - the Open Goldberg Variations Double CD, played by Kimiko Ishizaka, is available on Amazon. The final physical manifestation of this project has turned out beautifully, featuring many great photos of Kimiko, the dedications for all of the variations from the Kickstarter backers, and liner notes from both Andrew Melck and Kimiko herself. It looks quite nice on the CD rack and fits perfectly in those vintage machines that most of us still have lying around from the early days of digital music.

Buy one now, and you support Kimiko in her goal to record Bach's Well Tempered Clavier next. If you like it, give it a good review, and help others discover this music.

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