| Biography |
Thank you for taking an interest in my music. Here is the story of where it came from.
Music is, straight up, the most deeply emotional experience I have ever felt. I was drawn to music as a young child, my parents often remarking on my uncanny ability to capture complex tunes in my head after very few presentations and then whistle them back beginning to end. Furthermore, I felt a strong appeal toward the piano early on. There is no doubt that I love the sound of the piano for its own sake, but almost more importantly, I feel a sense of visceral tactile addiction to the sensation of the keys under my fingers &mdash there is an evocative experience to be had there.
I showed signs of composition from a early age. While studying classical piano as a child, I quickly discovered that I enjoyed making my own music at least as much as I enjoyed playing.
I wrote many simple melodies when I was young but composition was admittedly of secondary importance until the summer I turned seventeen, when I purchased a Korg 01/WFD synthesizer with money that most kids spend on their first car. My compositional tastes quickly expanded from piano to include orchestral pieces now that I had a means to create and hear simultaneous lines of music in their assigned instruments using the Korg. In addition, I greatly enjoyed the multitude of artificial sounds that the Korg provided, although my preferences always leaned toward the more pseudo-acoustic ambient sounds as opposed to the electronic technical sounds.
Over the next several years I composed and recorded music at a furious pace. My greater accomplishments during this time include a full orchestral symphony and the better part of a piano concerto. However, my repertoire remained weighted toward the ambient electronic sounds provided by the Korg. My one true passion, piano, remained prominent during this period, but my productivity was a mix of these various types of music: piano, ambient electronic, and orchestral.
As of 2000, I have taken up piano composition in earnest, putting ambient electronic music aside for the time being. Piano has always been my original calling. I find myself powerfully mesmerized when I am playing, so much so that on multiple occasions people have approached me from behind and touched my shoulder only to violently startle me to their presence.
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| Publication, Publicity |
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In the past my music has been presented online on sites such as mp3.com (back when it was a true indie-artist forum) and amp3.com. However, since I did not produce commericial CDs during that time, my music received only minimal public exposure and provided virtually no financial return.
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Starting in mid 2008 I have begun a second attempt at publishing and gaining a public audience for my music. This website and the CDs and sheet music made available here, in addition to my presence on other sites such as MySpace and CD Baby, are the central focus of that endeavour.
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| Influences |
My two primary piano influences are Beethoven and Chopin although I am quite partial to Brahms and Rachmaninoff ...would that I could aspire to such greatness... Of a more modern bent, I am a big fan of Ray Lynch, John Williams, and Jerry Goldsmith.
Second to classical music both orchestral and piano, my favorite genre to listen to (but not compose) is progressive electronic trance, especially as mixed by the DJs out of New York and Europe for the last decade or so. I am particularly fond of Christopher Lawrence, Filo & Peri, and Paul Oakenfold.
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| Adieu |
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I present my music to you in the hope that you will discover the same passion and power in it that I experience when playing and listening to it myself.
Thank you.
— Keith
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