On this year’s World Piano Day (29th March) YCC’s five Munich Members met and recorded some short piano pieces the international YCC members composed before. What came out are 10 little pieces composed by 9 different YCC members. The professionally recordings took part at a grand piano in Munich. The outcomes of the project will now be comped and mixed before we’ll release them on June 18 on every streaming outlet.
Before the Piano Day …
… we came up with the idea of writing little pieces for piano wich Adrian, Lennart, Karl, Mark and I could play and record at a grand piano in Munich. So some members wrote down their scores and mailed them to the members in Munich, who decided who will play the piece. They found a grand piano with a great acoustic and arranged to meet there at the big day.
On the Piano Day …
… the members from Munich met and have first set up all the necessary equipment. It took a while until everyone was happy with the position of the microphones and the outcoming sound and to find out which connected microphone was now the left one and which the right one ;). Once we had done that, there was nothing standing in the way of recording the pieces. After hours of recording everyone was finally pleased with the recordings.
After the Piano Day …
… the postprocessing was on the agenda. The pieces were comped and mixed by Adrian. When this was done, each member was given the opportunity to listen to the final tracks so they could express their wishes if there was anything still wrong or missing.
A bunch of thanks to the owner of the grand piano for letting us play and record his great instrument!