Binaural Space - Chopped Piano Day (2021)

This past January my parents decided they would move out of their flat. They've lived at their cottage for a year now and paying rent for a flat in the city doesn't make sense. They asked me if I wanted anything from the place. "Just the books you won't take yourselves, and the piano," I said. They agreed.

The situation is compicated now due to the pandemic but I had a chance to get to the flat one February morning. I packed a few boxes of the books and then I sat by the piano, equipped with my binaural microphone, and started playing. My plan was to record the whole performance live and then release it for this year's Piano Day in the end of March.

I enjoyed the experience. Felt the flow almost immediately, the instrument was playing itself and I was there just to witness it. It felt great and although I didn't perceive the world around, I occassionally realized "This motive is great, I hope people will love it." That's pride and it's never good during the music making process. I should have been alarmed by it.

I played for almost two hours. Wasn't watching the time, found out when I stopped playing and checked my phone (I haven't been wearing any watch since my hands got wounded last August). I had a pretty good feeling about the performance and I was looking forward to picking a third to a half of it and making it that live album. So I checked the recording to listen to a tiny bit.