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I have the .boe files somewhere. They're a proprietary version of MIDI that Boesendorfer developed. If you want them, I can find them and send them. robert@opengoldbergvariations.o…

The ambition of this project (Open Goldberg) was a bit wider. We wanted to make: - A software score (MuseScore) which has all of the advantages of a canonical digital document vs a…

Great recording!

First, the score was made with MuseScore. Then it was prepared as an iPad App by the MuseScore team who custom made the synchronization between the score and the music. I then reco…

Brad Mehldau is Kimiko's absolute favorite jazz pianist. His mastery of harmony and his impeccable piano technique really speaks to her.

All true and good points. The mailing list in question is controlled exclusively by myself and Kimiko Ishizaka and is only used to announce new projects by Kimiko.

We love Gulda!

The Open Goldberg Variations were recorded on a piano that has a self-playing function. When nearby construction interrupted the recording process with outside noise, we had the pi…

Indeed! Especially in Blues Variations, which is - like the Golderg Variations - a theme-and-variation form. But like the WTC and AoF, it ends in a 4 voice fugue. All on a blues th…

Stephen Malinowski's videos of Kimiko Ishizaka's Art of the Fugue recording are breathtaking. He understands the structure of the music much the same way that Kimiko does, and it r…

The scope of his creation is just unfathomable. The utter profundity of his pieces, followed by the sheer proliferation.

Hi! I produced this recording and project, and it's so nice to see it on the front page of Hacker News this morning. Let's talk about Kimiko Ishizaka, the pianist. She always insis…

Live in 40 minutes: https://youtu.be/H1WNHVXJiUg

Glad to hear this! It's a complicated problem. In classical music, ContentID has a hard time differentiating between various recordings of say the Goldberg Variations. People were …

OpenScore, a new initiative by the popular open source music notation software vendor MuseScore, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to create machine readable editions of iconic c…