Morning Sound #20 – A Whistle in the Pipes
Today brings us spring, and a pipe organ (flute register) improvisation. What better way to celebrate the rebirth of nature. https://www.patreon.com/posts/17588148 Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash
Morning Sound #19 – Seven
Nineteen is seven. Seven is nineteen. Seven is not too many pianos. Nineteen might be. This is the result of a little experiment: I improvised seven melodies, one after the other, with some simple rules. Rule 1: I play on the metronome, on every beat (tempo 150). Rule 2: I play my melody in unison […]
Morning Sound #18 – Rachel on the Mountain with Insects
Yeah right indeed there’s a reference in the title… It spells the name of the instrument that produces the sound I improvised this with. 5 points for those who can spell. https://www.patreon.com/posts/17515023 Photo by Julius Ulbrich on Unsplash
Morning Sound #17 – Schrödinger’s Human
https://www.patreon.com/posts/17514522 This Mellotron flutes improvisation is both dead and alive, until you’ve played it. Photo by jamie r. mink on Unsplash
An app to generate weird loops
A couple of weeks ago I announced my new project on Patreon. Three times a week, I record some new music and publish it on there, at exactly 7am (CET). I call these “Morning Sounds”.They’re a great way to keep the creativity flowing and to explore ideas for “larger” compositions as well, and I love […]
Protected: Farewell 2017, the Crazy One
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Why don't more jazz people play metal? (A story about SH.TG.N)
A while back, when I was still a jazz piano student at the Conservatory of Ghent, I started getting back into some intense metal music. John Zorn’s Naked City settled the transition. Then came The Dillinger Escape Plan. Then a bunch of other things. It’s around that period I decided to start SH.TG.N. I asked […]
Every Day in Limbo – why?
I had a doubt whether I should write this, or rather share this or not. Then I thought “what the hell let’s do it”. Tomorrow my first Patreon creation is going public. Patrons got it two days ago but from tomorrow on everyone can listen to it. I thought I’d share a little about the […]
Download (S)hhh’s 2008 album for free on Patreon
A few days ago I announced the opening of my Patreon page. Today and to celebrate that I decided to make the entire (S)hhh album “Silence in Wonderland (det allra viktigaste)” (2008) available not only in streaming but also in high quality download (mp3 192kbps, mp3 320kbps and flac), for free for all. Also, become a patron […]
Current Reading List
Dec 2017
Someone mentioned they would be interested in finding out what I’m reading at the moment. So I thought I’d share this here but I wanna know what you guys are reading too so please comment 🙂 I tend to start many books at the same time with the result that it takes me ages to […]