Gary D. Lloyd
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Gary D. Lloyd |
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Music is my number one passion and has been my entire life. Learning a new piece of music and trying to do the best possible job of recording it is the ultimate game for me. Sharing what I know about music with others or just exchanging knowledge is the kind of conversation I enjoy most.The current technological revolution has swept me up along with millions of other people around the world. I could do without my car much easier than I could do without my computer. Few people realize the importance of something new until it is already in the past and has become an integral part of everyday existence. MIDI music is still very new. Those of us who work with computer music forget that the average person does not have the slightest idea of what it is or what it can do.
I hope to see that change. As newer sound standards emerge, and as sampled sounds become increasingly realistic, more and more people will consider MIDI an important new way to record and compose music. I see MIDI as an opportunity to play 'a better piano'. All the great pianists of this century performed and still perform on the best nine-foot concert grands in existence. Such pianos can easily run $100,000 or more. Any piano I could possibly buy is going to be far inferior to such instruments. Every piano I've ever owned has been very inferior these monster concert instruments.
MIDI provides me and others like me with what I like to describe as 'a level playing field'.
At this time I'm focusing on playing and transcribing music written for piano solo. My transcriptions can be performed live. They are all written with performance in mind. However, I do use any and every editing technique available to come as close as possible to the exact performance that I hear in my head. This is just one of the advantages in MIDI-recording.
I play a Yamaha Clavinova and record with Master Tracks Pro. I make conventional analogue recordings by outputting from my Clavinova to a cassette deck and hope to begin burning CDs and producing MP3 files within a year.
I started playing piano at about age seven and I play more today than ever before. I gave my first piano lesson when I was sixteen, and by age 25 I had decided that teaching is what I do the best. Right now I'm pushing my students to record as much as possible, and I'm encouraging them to make home pages of their own on the web.
Please notice the total lack of info about my teachers and formal musical training. I would like my recordings to speak for themselves. However, if you are interested in my teachers or where I studied, drop me an email.
Update: Gary's MP3 recordings are now available at the Classical MIDI and MP3 Resource.
I hope you enjoy the music!
- Gary D. Lloyd
(gaer@zim.com)
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