PianoTell Recital #1 Meta Feedback

navindra · 2024-07-15T15:40:41+00:00

Update 3: 15 August 2024 PianoTell Recital #1 is now live! Please comment on the performances directly on the recital thread. Meta feedback on the recital...

navindra

WieWaldi For the recitals, it's just me right now as it's all technical work.

The flair was supposed to be updated for PACT, but we've been a bit slow to get that updated correctly.

Pallas

WieWaldi I haven't been well, and have resigned volunteering. I have the regular veteran gold star now.

WieWaldi

Pallas sorry to read about it, I must have missed this.

Welcome back to the Gold-Star club. Anyway, our icon looks much more lighthearted than walking around with a heavy backpack and the need for a supporting stick. 😉

WieWaldi

navindra Template

Performer: Name or Alias + Location + Experience
Piece: Title + Composer
Comment Policy: Feedback type desired (see below).
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After submitting, it reads a bit strange if I note down my own name. Unlike PW where every submission is published by "AB Forum Recital"-user, we are posting with our own user account, having the name+avatar already included.
I suggest to do a gentle re-work of the template in about two weeks, when this recital is finished and all impressions have settled down.

navindra

WieWaldi I suggest to do a gentle re-work of the template in about two weeks, when this recital is finished and all impressions have settled down.

Absolutely! That's the goal, things are going to be rocky at the beginning.

As I've been readying this recital, fixing up links and such, I had a chance to listen to one or two of the pieces. It feels like cheating but it's really just part of the job. And Oh My... Some of the pieces I accidentally listened to are so so good and the note on one of them is just so humble at the same time.

Player1 — Energico by Nancy Faber
rogerch — Improvisation 6 by rogerch
keff — A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Manning Sherwin & Eric Maschwitz
Sophia — Fascination by F. Marchetti
Sgisela — Joropo by Moisés Moleiro
pseudonym58 — Images (5) for orchestra by Claude Debussy, arr. Kurt Kaufman
Sam — Perpetual Motion #1 by Francis Poulenc
hebele — Downtown Abbey theme by John Lunn
MarieJ — Week #7 by Fabrizio Paterlini
plop_symphony — A Lincoln Tribute by Carol Matz
thepianoplayer416 — Air in D minor by Henry Purcell
BicBic — Prelude in B flat minor - No.16 from Op.34 by Shostakovich
Nightowl — Plaisir D'Amour by Giovanni Martini
bSharp — High Heels by Ludovico Einaudi
WieWaldi — Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog (Fix needed! PM sent.)
SalmonJack — Alia by SalmonJack

Will we get to an even 20?

Pallas

WieWaldi The backpacker was for PACT. I had an idea to use a mountain climbing metaphor for reaching the summit of Practice Every Day!

Player1

navindra

I have no idea how it worked out this way, but my submission already has almost 60 views, with less than half of those being "first time" views so there's a lot of re-watching going on, and the recital hasn't even started yet.

Not that I'm complaining about the traffic on my channel or anything but who knew that a duet with the cat would be so popular with a certain moderator? 😂

Calavera

I was too busy to submit anything in the previous PW recital, but this time I'm sharing a really exciting piece. It's good to be back!

Sorry if it's already been asked before, but is there going to be playlist (in audio format) with all the performances, or will we need to play each recording separately?

navindra

Calavera No audio playlist is currently supported. I could make a YouTube playlist and interleave it with the other non-YouTube submissions.

But I have a feeling it might also be kind of nice experience to play a video while scrolling through and reading. It's different from the Piano World experience but it may just work. Let's see how it goes.

Calavera

navindra Got it!

It looks like most people who are participitating here have also submitted their recordings to PW anyway. Since Sam usually provides an audio playlist and zipped MP3 files on PW, it's probably not necessary to do the same here.

That means I'll be able to listen to your performances while I'm, say, working or washing the dishes. I hope you guys' recordings make for decent washing-up soundtracks!

ShiroKuro

Calavera It looks like most people who are participitating here have also submitted their recordings to PW anyway.

Except for me! I uploaded a video link to the PT recital, but I'm not going to submit one to PW because I don't have time to deal with getting an mp3. 😅

My recording isn't that good anyway... 😜

twocats

Calavera It looks like most people who are participitating here have also submitted their recordings to PW anyway

This is my first time participating in any online recital! Honestly it's @navindra's enthusiasm that encouraged me to decide to participate at the very last minute 😃

TC3

I'm going to record today, see if I can get anything useable. Between today and tomorrow at most, I'll just use whatever take I'm happiest with.

plop_symphony

I'm never going to have a perfect take, so I went for one I'd be happy enough listening to.

I record every piece I play in order to mark it "completed", so my standards can't be too high or I'd never get anything done.

TC3

plop_symphony Exactly my approach. Now that I've submitted my video, it's time to move on to a new piece!

Nightowl

Player1 Well, it's hardly surprising, considering how awesome you are P1! Your fans have probably been waiting with baited breath for your next performance. 😁

navindra

Player1 Hah! I'm very confident the leak is not from PianoTell and it's not just me who did all the watching. Your submission is literally only viewable by you and me.

Couple of thoughts:

A lot of people already figured out the Piano World recital layout. It is trivially easy to preview a recital before it happens. So if there was a leak, it's more likely to be from Piano World than PianoTell!
Maybe the Rumble algorithm just likes your video! 🙂

bSharp

I had some memory lapses / flubs in my submission, I'll just call them ornaments!

Player1

Nightowl

I blame the cat. Just like I always do because it's usually right on the money. The way that works is; he either did it, or made me do it trying to stop him from doing it, or it happened merely because someone went by and thought, you know, if an orange cat were here...

Or it could just be coincidence and the algorithm working in harmony with the celestial symphony.

Nah, it was the cat.

iternabe

Just got mine uploaded in the nick of time. Whew!

Rubens

Deadline is same as PW recital, so Aug 15th at 6am Eastern time?

navindra

Rubens This is where Sam absolutely shines... his discipline in handling the recitals is unmatched.

So no, there's no way I'll be that prompt. First, this is smack dab in the middle of the work week for me. Second, 6AM ET is 3AM PT for me... I would die if I had to wake up that early! So let's just say I will aim for Aug 15th, it will be several hours after Sam with a more fluid time range, but I'll do my best.

This is why I originally didn't think it would be sustainable for me to be the RC, but now I'm starting to see it wasn't such a bad idea to pioneer the first one (or several)... I get to learn first hand what needs work! A lot of this could be automated — the recital could auto publish in the future.

Player1

navindra

Hah back at you! As of this morning 78 views of which only 30 are first impression. Normally that ratio would be more like 78 / 65.

Somebody must really like cat duets. To be honest though, the cat really did do a good job of coming in right on cue during the piece so maybe that's the reason.

JB_PT

I've been really busy so I'm not sure I'll make this one...I'd have to get a decent take tomorrow and that seems unlikely (I will try...). But @navindra you mentioned in another thread that you had created a DropBox account as an option for audio uploads. I don't see a mention of that in the official submission post/form?

navindra

JB_PT Here's hoping!

It's covered in this section:

...you may submit your audio (e.g. MP3) or video file (e.g. MP4) here instead. In your submission, put <PT> as the placeholder for the performance.

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