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\"PJB_pianoportrait_2014\"<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been many years since I explored sound<\/a> here on my blog. And many years since my very first public piano recording<\/a>. With your enthusiasm and praise I was so uplifted. Life moved on but the music stayed in my heart.<\/p>\n

This year, in working to open my heart ever more, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided to play again. For me. And to share it with you.<\/a> Freely. Each month in 2014, I will upload a new piano composition: My heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice. Each piece will be recorded in my own home on an old wooden upright borrowed from a friend, complete with ambient sound from my home & neighborhood. With each piece I am striving to let go: Let go of perfection; let go of expectation; let go of self.<\/p>\n

There will be mistakes. I will not edit the compositions. These will not be professional recordings.<\/p>\n

I offer each composition to you freely \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you can download them and add them to your music collection, to take with you as you journey in your creative life. I recommend listening to them with your headphones so you can hear the birds singing in the background, and the pedal creaking, the keys clicking.<\/p>\n

At the end of the year, in its roughness, will be an album.<\/p>\n

Here is each piece so far, I hope you enjoy…<\/p>\n