Share on Tumblr I know . . . I’ve been posting a LOT on Steampunk music and culture of late, well, much more than on hypnosis and trance which really is what this blog normally focuses on . . . but when I explore things or find them of interest they often go here...
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Share on Tumblr MTV Shows This is a video from MTV on Steampunk with a glance at the music of the culture. Found it because I’ve been devouring Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com) of late. Methinks we’ve found a wonderful musical subculture resonant with some – but not all – of Kaye’s own interests in tersm...
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Share on Tumblr I quite enjoy bands that play with fantasy, science fiction, and magickal themes. Abney Park started out labeled as gothic and then through the years as folks came and went, they reinvented themselves as a steampunk band complete with airship narrative and band member alter-personae as airship pirates and they seem...
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Share on Tumblr My daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips improvising at piano . . . she’s at home just letting her fingers move . . . fellow hypnotists may note that her improvisation is very much based upon a musical ideomotor movement of her fingers which take on a life of their own as she...
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Share on Tumblr Here we go . . . this one’s SPECIAL! Here is a video and some images of my daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, as she performs MAIDEN FLIGHT OF THE BLUE WHITE DRAGON, her original piano composition on 14 November 2010 at Wang LaoShr’s Annual Student Recital in Taipei, Taiwan. Kaye was...
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Share on Tumblr Here are some more video framegrabs of my daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips and her as yet unnamed band performing at a music festival invitational for high school rock bands. The band, while rough around the edges, was names one of the top bands performing at the festival. Kaye plays drums for...
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Share on Tumblr Some of you may not know that my daughter Kaye is now also in a band and plays drums . . . yes, drums. Oddly enough, not keyboards even though she is a double major in Piano and Composition but drums, an instrument she has no formal training in and one...
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Share on Tumblr Well, I finally got some photos . . . well video framegrabs . . . of my daughter, Kaye Elizabeth Phillips, performing MEMORIES OF CAMELOT, her original piano composition on 4 June 2010 at Tamkang Senior High School in Tamshui, Taiwan, where she is a student in the music specialty program,...
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Share on Tumblr I was looking for videos of Klaatu‘s version of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft to share with my daughter Kaye and came across this little gem which mashes The Carpenters better known version with Star Trek for First Contact goodness . . . I prefer the longer World Contact Day version...
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Share on Tumblr This is koolness, well it's koolness if it actually turns out to be all that it is claimed to be. Rhythm games are undergoing further evolution to the point that it's not unforeseeable to predict that eventually games like Rock Band and the rest may in fact become music education tools...
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Share on Tumblr In this video . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7k1yCm4CAM . . . my daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips performs "MEMORIES OF CAMELOT" . . . her own original piano composition. This performance took place on 4 June 2010 at Tamkang Senior High School in Tamshui, Taiwan, where Kaye is a student in the music...
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Share on Tumblr It is done! Our hypnosis show at Spring Scream 春天吶喊 (http://www.springscream.com) was scheduled for 12:10am (yes, just after midnight) but when we got there the band scheduled before us was just setting up to perform . . . things were running much later than usual. So, I apologized to Kaye who was...
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Share on Tumblr My daughter Kaye is a fan of Vocaloid . . . an odd phenomenon in its own right. Vocaloid is a program developed by Yamaha that is a voice synthesizer with music editor in which folks create song files that typically are music – original or otherwise – with voice.  The...
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Share on Tumblr On 5 Sept. 2009, we took in the recital for students of Kaye's piano teacher . . . here is Kaye Elizabeth Phillips performing a piece by Schubert (Impromptus op.90 d.899 n.4) . . . If you can't see the video embed in your stream, then go to my main blog...
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Share on Tumblr As many regular readers know, my daughter Kaye Elizabeth Phillips (http://www.kayephillips.com) is a songwriter . . . well, I've heard her messing about with an idea and usually she's quite original . . . however, when you're using chords in your composition, there's only so far you can take it ....
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