Andrew
The first visual memory I have is that of the white upright piano in Singapore, Hell and the Dark Forces lived at the bottom, Heaven and the Angels at the top, they would play battles through my fingers and I was hooked.
As a psychology graduate I studied how sound affects human performance.
As a musician I compose instrumental music that stimulates your brain but doesn't mess with your language centers, leaving you free to write creatively without distraction.
As a curator I research how music can improve your life and create flow - I can tell you what music to listen to when studying for a test and why listening to sad music can make you feel better.
As a creator / contributor at musicto I believe that music can make the world better.
What I'm doing nowPlaylists
Come As you Are – Crowder
9 February 2017
This track was submitted by Ann Campanella, the author of Motherhood: Lost and Found (a memoir) which is a book for people with elderly parents, those caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia and those facing pregnancy loss and/or infertility.
I Miss You – Kacey Musgraves
7 February 2017
I love listening to tracks that other people recommend for when they’re feeling sad – you never quite know what you’re going to get. This is the second track with the title “I Miss You” – this time it’s a more traditional love-lost song and I’m digging it
Dismantle – Peter Sandberg
31 January 2017
Propellers. I don’t know why, but it’s all I can think about with this piece. Like an old biplane – or even a world war II fighter, like a spitfire or a hurricane.
Call – Julianna Barwick
31 January 2017
It’s the tone of the piano that grabs me here – big and dark and and faintly foreboding – kinda like the steel tube you’re sitting in.
At Last – Martin Landh
31 January 2017
I love this – it feels like the start of a new day – full of hope – full of build – full of light and love and support and just – damn – it’s everything you want in a beautifully uplifting piece of music.
Comptine d’un autre été – Yann Tiersen
31 January 2017
Yann Tiersen is one of my favorite pianist / composers – what he did with the score of Amelie was amazing – one instrument – a myriad of emotions – sheer genius.
Getting Back Together – music2work2
31 January 2017
As an artist you never know what tracks are going to resonate with the public – of sure, you can be part of a Nashville songwriting team and construct a track for an audience but even, you’ve no real idea whether it’ll “fly” or not.
Throes – Half Moon Run
31 January 2017
So you want a cascading piano to paint every bit of sadness in your soul? Yet you also want it to have an element of hope?
Memories – music2work2
31 January 2017
Originally written for the music to grieve to playlist – it’s kinda disturbing that it should arrive on this playlist too!
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Rotation – Luke Howard
31 January 2017
I love it when you think you know a track only to have your expectations exceeded as the composer take you in a completely unexpected direction.
To Move – Alex Kozobolis & Anna Rose Carter
31 January 2017
A collaboration between two people, two pianists which produces an effortlessly light, floaty, safe space.
Safe Landing 1 – music2work2
31 January 2017
This track was the original inspiration for the entire playlist. Actually the original idea had been kicked around a few years back and I had worked up a theme at the time but when i came back to it it didn’t really resonate.