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Announcing my online college class, “Making Music with the Apple iOS”
I’ve created a college-level course in making music with Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) Here’s a promotional movie I put together: and here’s an in-depth interview that I did with Chip Boaz for his great “iOS Music and You” site The class opened Monday September 24 via Foothill College Global Access, but late registration [...]
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Music for Kids of All Ages, featuring my guest Cowboy Jared!
This Sunday, October 2nd, I’ll be doing another of my Music For Kids Of All Ages concerts at the Mill Valley Community Center. These concerts are put on by the Marin League of the San Francisco Symphony as a way to get kids interested in classical music, a motive I constantly subvert by hiring jazz [...]
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“Radical High-Tech Musical Instruments” at CCRMA/Stanford
I was recently part of a panel discussion at the computer music lab at Stanford University (CCRMA), hosted by Roger Linn, legendary inventor of the LinnDrum, the Akai MPC60 and many other devices that have changed the face of modern music production. My contribution was a demonstration of the Haken Continuum, a very cool keyboard-based [...]
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James Judd’s “Geese”
Geese from Ed Goldfarb on Vimeo. I recently scored a series of short animated films for comedian/monologuist James Judd. The one I’ve uploaded, “Geese”, was visualized by Canadian graphics specialist Huy Mai I’ve been watching a lot of Bugs Bunny with Syd lately, and I’m always amazed at the genius of composer Carl Stalling and [...]
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Adventures in Audio Reverse-Engineering
I recently made a song for a little film introducing this cool piece of video hardware, the Ensemble Designs Mitto. The music is a “sound-alike”, designed to emulate (as closely as legally possible) an existing song by a British cartoon-pop band (let’s call them “Apez”). We changed the lyrics to support the product, but otherwise [...]
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Happy New Year from Ed Goldfarb (Music)
I’d like to thank everyone for helping make the roll-out of my new site a rollicking success, and for the (literally) hundreds of kind words and accolades I’ve received for “Cold December Flies Away”. It gives me a warm n’ zesty buzz to know that I helped “make the season bright” in households all over [...]
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Video: Coventry Carol piano solo by Ed Goldfarb
Coventry Carol from Ed Goldfarb on Vimeo. On a mobile device? Try YouTube My modern interpretation of Coventry Carol, one of the oldest known carols. From Cold December Flies Away, a solo piano Christmas album that’s jazzier than George Winston’s December, but not as jazzy as Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas. The album Cold [...]
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A Christmas album that’s a worthy companion to “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
Since the age of 13, I’ve been a professional musician and have played Christmas songs for as long as I can remember – accompanying singers, as a soloist, and also when I was Music Director for San Francisco’s famous Beach Blanket Babylon musical. I’ve produced many holiday CDs for other artists, including saxophonist Ross Walters’ [...]
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The mysterious history of Coventry Carol
As a kid, I’d always thought Coventry Carol was the nickname of the woman with whom Winston Churchill shared a dirty weekend during the Blitz. But in college, I was enlightened by a very special Christmas. Or, I should say, A Very Special Christmas, the pop superstar (circa 1985) covers album that started the familiar-artists-butcher-favorite-songs-for-worthy-causes [...]
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A new take on Bohemian Rhapsody
Watch video of this re-imagining of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody performed by Bella Sorella, with Ed Goldfarb on piano and acting as music director, at the El Campanil Theatre in Antioch, California, September 12, 2009.