Piano music
Chopin vs. the Flappy-Bird Volume Control
Frédéric Chopin's Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4, with the right-hand part played on a Commodore 64 running Qwertuoso, demonstrating the new Flappy-Bird volume control mode. Read more.
Posted Friday 10-Mar-2023 07:52, 0 comments.
Larghetto from Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto
Featuring two SID chips and one piano. Read more.
Posted in ancient times, 4 comments.
Live at Fjälldata 2024
Mahoney (of Mahoney & Kaktus fame) and I sat down to play some SID tunes at Fjälldata, the only demoparty I'm aware of that features a grand piano. Read more.
Posted Friday 16-Feb-2024 08:26, 3 comments.
One man and his piano
This is my cover of Rob Hubbard's One Man And His Droid. Read more.
- Linus Akesson - One Man And His Piano (MP3, 6.2 MB)
Posted in ancient times, 11 comments.
Parallax for piano
Martin Galway's Parallax, by me, live, on a real piano, without any edits or overdubs. Read more.
- Linus Akesson - Parallax For Piano (MP3, 11.7 MB)
- Parallax for piano, score (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Parallax for piano, score (PostScript, 615.4 kB)
- Parallax for piano, score (MusiXTeX source code, 7.2 kB)
Posted in ancient times, 9 comments.
Romance from Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto
Featuring one SID chip and one piano. Read more.
- Linus Åkesson - SID vs. piano - Romance (MP3, 9.3 MB)
Posted in ancient times, 6 comments.
Stein Pedersen's Nocturne
A beautiful SID tune by Stein Pedersen appears at the very end of the Commodore 64 demo 2011 — A Press Space Odyssey by Offence. Here I've adapted it into a piano exercise for the left hand. Read more.
- Linus Akesson - Stein Pedersen's Nocturne.pdf (Sheet music, 114.6 kB)
- Linus Akesson - Stein Pedersen's Nocturne.mp3 (MP3, 1.8 MB)
Posted Wednesday 6-Dec-2017 07:37, 2 comments.
The Swan
In an attempt to squeeze as much emotion as possible into a tiny chip, I managed to fit Camille Saint-Saëns' The Swan into 480 (out of 1024) bytes of ROM on an ATtiny15. The microcontroller runs at 1.6 MHz and provides 32 bytes of RAM (actually registers). Read more.
- Linus Akesson - The Swan (Video, 1280x720, Ogg Theora/Vorbis, 114.9 MB)
- Linus Akesson - The Swan (Soundtrack, MP3, 2.8 MB)
- lft-swan-src (Source code, 4.0 kB)
- lft-swan-cad (Schematics, PDF, 12.0 kB)
Posted Monday 26-Apr-2010 16:12, 10 comments.
Triple fugue #1
When Frédéric Chopin wrote his rather melancholic prelude in C minor, he did not know that years later, a computer game called Ghosts And Goblins would carry the chord progression of the first few bars of that very prelude into the hearts and minds of a whole new generation. Read more.
- Linus Akesson - Prelude And Triple Fugue No 1 (MP3, 4.7 MB)
Posted in ancient times, 3 comments.
Vocalise
Rachmaninoff's Vocalise arranged for C64 and piano. Read more.
- Linus Akesson - Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vocalise.mp3 (MP3, 13.9 MB)
Posted Sunday 13-Mar-2022 22:02, 2 comments.