I've been listening to her without watching her all day, and I think I figured it out.  Her silent motions are the visual portion of the performance, because her playing is so meticulous that she imparts no personality onto the music (and that’s a good thing).  You know how when you hear Keith Jarrett or Brad Mehldau (or more obviously, Miles Davis or David Gilmour), you know immediately who's playing?  Not with her, I can't.  She lets the (beautiful) music speak for itself.  I would love to hear her play some Schubert or Bach, or any other kind of music that "plays itself".  So her movements at the bench are the visual portion of the performance. 

Or maybe she just can't help herself, maybe she's just that moved by the music.

Oh well, don't know, don't care, I enjoy, and she obviously does too, and that's all that matters.

On the bright side, she does Pictures -- one of my favourite pieces for piano, EVAR -- her performance of it might have just zoomed into the top spot for me.

Thanks for reminding me of her.  By the way, I had heard her before, in a collaboration she did with Ólafur Arnalds, The Chopin Project, which I also enjoyed.

Really wish I was paying more attention at the time, would've seen her live.  That was 5 years ago.

Unrelated-- jazz:

 

Unrelated, Japanese ska.

 

 

 

I've seen that before, love it!

And those of you who have known me longer than Head-Case (which is to say, none of you) will know that Henry Mancini has a special place in my heart, so this was a particularly mind-blowing arrangement:

 

 

 

Ray Chen: Tartini Devil's Trill Sonata arr. Kreisler

(Ray has a 2-hour interview with Alice Sara Ott that I haven't watched yet)

Bonus:

 

Edited June 9, 20206 yr by HiWire

Reznor plus Bowie with sadly contemporary resonance.

 

Edited June 8, 20206 yr by Hopstretch

 

 

 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/649829678

This is the latest (animated) video from my favourite band I've been hanging out with lately, Al1ce

It's all sorts of awesome

Unrelated:

 

 

 

Sorry about the lack of vid...but thought it was a good tune.  Reminded me of Dylan...

 

HS

I watched some crazy dude in a wing suit flying near some crazy rock face in a GoPro sponsered video. But what stole the show for me was this wonderful (background) music and this angelic voice - 

 

 

This version is both inferior and superior to the versions playing in my head, not sure why (other than the obvious—it doesn’t go on for an hour).

 

This animation is amazing, the song is beautiful, and I love how the video and lyrics are two different takes on the same (sweet) concept (your loved ones aren’t truly gone if you hold them in your heart).

Occasionally have to listen to this just to clear the pipes in my head.

 

Lollers, I’ve never heard that version, only the Filter version.

which I do dearly love 

thanks for opening my ears to it

 

 

@Hopstretch - one assumes that you already know about Ms. Bridgers' new album?

https://pitchfork.com/news/phoebe-bridgers-releases-new-album-punisher-listen/

Unlikely to be uplifting, but that's not always what the Dr. ordered.