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100 Goldberg Variations - The Unboxing

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.

Kimiko's Goldberg Variations CD

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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Making Radio History with Wisconsin Public Radio

on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 15:47

Radio listeners in Wisconsin will have a special treat tomorrow (Sunday, June 24, 2012). They'll be the first-ever radio audience to experience a new score-following technology developed by MuseScore and SampleSumo. Wisconsin Public Radio is going to broadcast the entire 83 minutes of Kimiko Ishizaka's Open Goldberg Variations, and at the same time, invite listeners to watch the score by visiting the website opengoldberg.wpr.org. The score that appears in the browser is the new edition of the Goldbergs that was produced by Werner Schweer as a part of the Open Goldberg Variations project. I was interviewed by Norman Gilliland on WPR's "The Midday" show, discussing the new possibilities that MuseScore scores and score-following technology brings us. Here is that interview.

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