Mr Sandbags

My piano teacher thought it might be nice for me to learn to play a carol and came up with this arrangement, by Gilbert DeBenedetti, of 'Silent Night'. Not being much into carols it wouldn't have occurred to me to try one but I liked the sound…read more

This is the recording of my performance of Einaudi's 'I due fuimi' at the Littlewick Green church hall as part of the Cherry Garden Music winter concert. It was played on a seemingly quite old Steinway concert grand. I aim to find out more…read more

Another progress recording, with another month or so of practice and a 16-day practice streak. The concert where I am playing this is next week. I'm hoping to lock in a little more speed between now and then (although I note I seem to have…read more

This is a recording of the first time I have played Ludivico Einaudi's "I Due Fuimi" all the way through. It includes numerous errors & slight pauses but I managed to keep going and finish it and after MANY months of practice that feels…read more

Edward Lear. Ring Modulation. No, I don't know why either.

Ghosts do not speak.

A micro-tonal piece made using one instance of the Novaphone 340 ("Imperial") playing 3 piano samples from SoundIron's "Emotional Piano 2.0". The samples were sequenced using a MIDI keyboard using the Novaphone Micro-8 scale (1/8 semitone per…read more

An arrangement of chords, arpeggiated, and lightly drizzled with effects.

A violin sample used as an impulse response for a convolution reverb to which various filtered noise is fed. Just playing with the technique.

This is the recording of my performance of Einaudi's 'I due fuimi' at the Littlewick Green church hall as part of the Cherry Garden Music winter concert. It was played on a seemingly quite old Steinway concert grand. I aim to find out more…read more

This is an ambient piece made mostly from field recordings in the Soniccouture collections 'Geosonics' and 'Giant Bass Tongue Drum'.

The final version, at last!

Tess Savage - composition, synth, strings, voice Mr Sandbags - beats & reichatron samples Deep in the night I remember Euphoria (Savage 2012)

This is my first run through the 7th Goldberg variation. It's been about a month since I started practicing it. This is the first time I "made it"—meaning, it's a bit fumbling and pushes and pulls, but hey, I hit all the notes! I've played…read more

My piano teacher thought it might be nice for me to learn to play a carol and came up with this arrangement, by Gilbert DeBenedetti, of 'Silent Night'. Not being much into carols it wouldn't have occurred to me to try one but I liked the sound…read more

My piano teacher thought it might be nice for me to learn to play a carol and came up with this arrangement, by Gilbert DeBenedetti, of 'Silent Night'. Not being much into carols it wouldn't have occurred to me to try one but I liked the sound…read more

This is the recording of my performance of Einaudi's 'I due fuimi' at the Littlewick Green church hall as part of the Cherry Garden Music winter concert. It was played on a seemingly quite old Steinway concert grand. I aim to find out more…read more

This is the recording of my performance of Einaudi's 'I due fuimi' at the Littlewick Green church hall as part of the Cherry Garden Music winter concert. It was played on a seemingly quite old Steinway concert grand. I aim to find out more…read more

Another progress recording, with another month or so of practice and a 16-day practice streak. The concert where I am playing this is next week. I'm hoping to lock in a little more speed between now and then (although I note I seem to have…read more