Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:12:09 +0200 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/ en-EN contact@hearthis.at contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/ https://img.hearthis.at/1/-/7/_/uploads/11063/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_95441b18cbbd5e0974bab1039129f06bhpim2407-1.jpg no no https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/harmony-for-the-quietude-ii/ My kids growed older now, but I still play those harmonies almost daily for them.
I did not record or upload anything for years, maybe it's time to change that. I might add some whistling or accordeon to those piano pieces or just do some new harmonies.]]> My kids growed older now, but I still play those harmonies almost daily for them.
I did not record or upload anything for years, maybe it's time to change that. I might add some whistling or accordeon to those piano pieces or just do some new harmonies.]]> 4421816 no no Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:41:10 +0100 2020-02-27T17:41:10+01:00 5:51 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/flying-wing/
This track is featuring some great old boxes: Yamaha TG77 (the high panning and choir pads, old 1989 midi sequence reused), Korg X5 (sound effects and the very deep bass), Korg M1 (the Tuba)

About the title: the cover picture shows my 3 square meter speed kite flying in the German hills under a dramatic sky - my daughters call that kite "The Flying Wing"

Enjoy :)]]>
This track is featuring some great old boxes: Yamaha TG77 (the high panning and choir pads, old 1989 midi sequence reused), Korg X5 (sound effects and the very deep bass), Korg M1 (the Tuba)

About the title: the cover picture shows my 3 square meter speed kite flying in the German hills under a dramatic sky - my daughters call that kite "The Flying Wing"

Enjoy :)]]> 39045 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 14:02:04 +0200 2014-05-19T14:02:04+02:00 3:14 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/wenn-die-natur-einen-traegt/
a few days ago I woke up to a lovely little tune. It was my daughter (9 years old now) trying out her first own song on the grand - she said she was inspired by nature, the rising sun, the spring and the tweets of the birds in the garden...

She even had written down a song text and a title in German. The title means something like "when one is supported by nature..."
I just had to arrange and play it for her :) So here it is... and yup, the art work is her's as well :)
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a few days ago I woke up to a lovely little tune. It was my daughter (9 years old now) trying out her first own song on the grand - she said she was inspired by nature, the rising sun, the spring and the tweets of the birds in the garden...

She even had written down a song text and a title in German. The title means something like "when one is supported by nature..."
I just had to arrange and play it for her :) So here it is... and yup, the art work is her's as well :)
]]> 39091 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 19:42:19 +0200 2014-05-19T19:42:19+02:00 3:15 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/balkamusette/
I just wanted an easy going musette melody with southern European atmosphere but somehow I could not keep that Balkan spirit from sneaking up to my mind... Sometimes a song has its own will and one has to let it happen :)

I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed playing it :)
Oh - if someone wants the sheet music, drop me a line and I'll publish it.

Take care

fred]]>
I just wanted an easy going musette melody with southern European atmosphere but somehow I could not keep that Balkan spirit from sneaking up to my mind... Sometimes a song has its own will and one has to let it happen :)

I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed playing it :)
Oh - if someone wants the sheet music, drop me a line and I'll publish it.

Take care

fred]]> 39087 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 18:12:06 +0200 2014-05-19T18:12:06+02:00 3:30 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/harmony-for-the-quietude-i-score-in-song-description/ in the evening, immediately after the kids go to bed, i often improvise some quite music on the grand piano using slow and soft chord patterns and melodies in the higher register of the instrument. Because we live in an old wooden house - the grand's sound vibrates through the whole building helping the children to calm down quickly as they listen. Mostly they sleep within 5 or 10 minutes. Those improvisations are known now as daddy's harmonies for the quietude.

About the song:
this one came out after i heard a guy in the radio telling that despite what people say about November, that month actually is a very happy and positive month. That day, i absolutely disagreed with him: the winter and tons of snow had already arrived and it came with an absolutely dark and depressed atmosphere. My harmony of the quietude that evening just reflects those feelings.

About the way this sound was created:
This track was a bit of a challenge in many different ways. I'm trying out a completely new way of working by moving from an hardware based recording setup to a computer based workflow. My wife happened to record the improvisation with a small mp3 recorder - I scored it out from scratch and then played and then recorded it on a master keyboard and PC-Based tools. By the way, the score was made using MuseScore and can be downloaded for free from my web site:

http://vangestel.de/scores/piano/harmony-for-the-quietude-i.pdf

First, i learned so much about my performance weaknesses while doing the transcription. To understand what i had improvised was not easy and a lot of musical corrections had to be done. Then, to play my own piece afterwards, was a pain - i guess this is the very last track i did without a click track haha. The output of the piano synth is still recorded using the old hardware recorder because the first tries with the PC were just producing garbage - i still have to work on that one.

I intend to orchestrate this piece with MuseScore or other PC tools. I am currently reading some books on scoring, orchestration and harmony and on recording techniques. Hopefully this will help to produce better scores and orchestrations from a theoretical point of view and better tracks from a technical point of view.

I must admit that i had to resist the desire to return to the "old system" - that is: just lay down a piano part and then play some instruments like accordion, flutes or hardware synths to it using that good old Roland recorder. It would be a hell of a lot easier to me - just pushing that red record (hardware) button over and over again until some performance finally satisfies...

Anyway, i hope you enjoy this rather long track - sorry about that - but 3 minutes are definitely too short to get the quietude coming through ;) If you like it or if you have some feedback on my little story - just drop me a line, always much appreciated!]]> in the evening, immediately after the kids go to bed, i often improvise some quite music on the grand piano using slow and soft chord patterns and melodies in the higher register of the instrument. Because we live in an old wooden house - the grand's sound vibrates through the whole building helping the children to calm down quickly as they listen. Mostly they sleep within 5 or 10 minutes. Those improvisations are known now as daddy's harmonies for the quietude.

About the song:
this one came out after i heard a guy in the radio telling that despite what people say about November, that month actually is a very happy and positive month. That day, i absolutely disagreed with him: the winter and tons of snow had already arrived and it came with an absolutely dark and depressed atmosphere. My harmony of the quietude that evening just reflects those feelings.

About the way this sound was created:
This track was a bit of a challenge in many different ways. I'm trying out a completely new way of working by moving from an hardware based recording setup to a computer based workflow. My wife happened to record the improvisation with a small mp3 recorder - I scored it out from scratch and then played and then recorded it on a master keyboard and PC-Based tools. By the way, the score was made using MuseScore and can be downloaded for free from my web site:

http://vangestel.de/scores/piano/harmony-for-the-quietude-i.pdf

First, i learned so much about my performance weaknesses while doing the transcription. To understand what i had improvised was not easy and a lot of musical corrections had to be done. Then, to play my own piece afterwards, was a pain - i guess this is the very last track i did without a click track haha. The output of the piano synth is still recorded using the old hardware recorder because the first tries with the PC were just producing garbage - i still have to work on that one.

I intend to orchestrate this piece with MuseScore or other PC tools. I am currently reading some books on scoring, orchestration and harmony and on recording techniques. Hopefully this will help to produce better scores and orchestrations from a theoretical point of view and better tracks from a technical point of view.

I must admit that i had to resist the desire to return to the "old system" - that is: just lay down a piano part and then play some instruments like accordion, flutes or hardware synths to it using that good old Roland recorder. It would be a hell of a lot easier to me - just pushing that red record (hardware) button over and over again until some performance finally satisfies...

Anyway, i hope you enjoy this rather long track - sorry about that - but 3 minutes are definitely too short to get the quietude coming through ;) If you like it or if you have some feedback on my little story - just drop me a line, always much appreciated!]]> 39089 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 18:16:36 +0200 2014-05-19T18:16:36+02:00 8:31 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/melody-for-my-unborn-child/ 39086 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 18:09:05 +0200 2014-05-19T18:09:05+02:00 3:08 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/valse-a-lhoneur-du-printemps-score-in-song-description/
Normally, in the second half of March, we have something like 15 or 20 degrees celsius and trees are in blossom. I took the picture this morning from my office window, we had -5 degrees and as you can see - trees are still leafless. Snow arrived November last year and it it's still there...

When I play musette waltzes, everyone in the house gets happy, wants to dance and smile. It is my way to play that snow away and get some southern French atmosphere. This one I wrote two weeks ago - my little daughter (almost 4) just loves it and asked me this morning to put it on SoundCloud - so other people could dance as well and be sure that spring will come very very soon :)

I couldn't resist that sweet request, so I recorded it. I had to put that usual perfectionism aside and uploaded it, quick and dirty as it is.

Played on a Weltmeister Cassotto 414 accordion. Recorded in one take, using two t.bone SC100II mics, that old Roland VS880 recorder, effects (reverb, compression, limiter) were done with MultiTrackStudio, Seems that I finally found a way to get that loudness, haha!

If someone likes to have the score - here you find it for free:
http://vangestel.de/scores/accordion/valse-lhoneur-du-printemps.pdf

I hope you enjoy it.
]]>
Normally, in the second half of March, we have something like 15 or 20 degrees celsius and trees are in blossom. I took the picture this morning from my office window, we had -5 degrees and as you can see - trees are still leafless. Snow arrived November last year and it it's still there...

When I play musette waltzes, everyone in the house gets happy, wants to dance and smile. It is my way to play that snow away and get some southern French atmosphere. This one I wrote two weeks ago - my little daughter (almost 4) just loves it and asked me this morning to put it on SoundCloud - so other people could dance as well and be sure that spring will come very very soon :)

I couldn't resist that sweet request, so I recorded it. I had to put that usual perfectionism aside and uploaded it, quick and dirty as it is.

Played on a Weltmeister Cassotto 414 accordion. Recorded in one take, using two t.bone SC100II mics, that old Roland VS880 recorder, effects (reverb, compression, limiter) were done with MultiTrackStudio, Seems that I finally found a way to get that loudness, haha!

If someone likes to have the score - here you find it for free:
http://vangestel.de/scores/accordion/valse-lhoneur-du-printemps.pdf

I hope you enjoy it.
]]> 39083 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 17:45:04 +0200 2014-05-19T17:45:04+02:00 2:33 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/some-songs/
Some songs I just can't sing for you, they keep lingering, bothering me.
Deep inside of me I hold some songs, so many songs.
Oh I want to share them all and open up my music.
So listen carefully, I long to sing for you, the notes you've been waiting to hear...
My hands will play, my heart will say what I feel.
So please come closer now, let us grow and sing together,
let us try and sing together, let's sing some songs together...!

Some songs you sing for me just don't come through, although you try and try, it's frightening me.
When I think of all those older songs that I have to free,
then I know I will need some time to hear your music.
I will listen carefully, as long as you sing for me, the notes you've been waiting to share...
And I know, one day my heart will hear what you feel.
So please come closer now, let us grow and come together,
let us try to sing together, let's sing some songs together...!

Some songs we have not sung together yet, they keep lingering, bothering you and me.
If we bear in mind how magical our love can be,
than we can carry on to make our music.
And we keep listening, verry carefully, to the notes we've been trying to sing...
We will fly and play, we'll cry and say what we feel.
So please come closer now, let us grow and play together,
let us try and sing together, let us sing some songs together...!]]>
Some songs I just can't sing for you, they keep lingering, bothering me.
Deep inside of me I hold some songs, so many songs.
Oh I want to share them all and open up my music.
So listen carefully, I long to sing for you, the notes you've been waiting to hear...
My hands will play, my heart will say what I feel.
So please come closer now, let us grow and sing together,
let us try and sing together, let's sing some songs together...!

Some songs you sing for me just don't come through, although you try and try, it's frightening me.
When I think of all those older songs that I have to free,
then I know I will need some time to hear your music.
I will listen carefully, as long as you sing for me, the notes you've been waiting to share...
And I know, one day my heart will hear what you feel.
So please come closer now, let us grow and come together,
let us try to sing together, let's sing some songs together...!

Some songs we have not sung together yet, they keep lingering, bothering you and me.
If we bear in mind how magical our love can be,
than we can carry on to make our music.
And we keep listening, verry carefully, to the notes we've been trying to sing...
We will fly and play, we'll cry and say what we feel.
So please come closer now, let us grow and play together,
let us try and sing together, let us sing some songs together...!]]> 39082 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 17:37:06 +0200 2014-05-19T17:37:06+02:00 2:31 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/mongolian-dream/ 39080 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 17:32:05 +0200 2014-05-19T17:32:05+02:00 2:44 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/low-whistle-impro/ 39070 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 16:26:05 +0200 2014-05-19T16:26:05+02:00 1:58 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/muze/ All sounds from Yamaha TG-77 - taped with a simple tape deck - back in the early 90'ies - a time long before PC, Vst and digital home recording ;)
I hope someone here still likes this old stuff.]]> All sounds from Yamaha TG-77 - taped with a simple tape deck - back in the early 90'ies - a time long before PC, Vst and digital home recording ;)
I hope someone here still likes this old stuff.]]> 39069 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 16:12:10 +0200 2014-05-19T16:12:10+02:00 2:39 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/russian-waltz/
This tune appears in the "Cycling Central Asia" film made by the Britisch cyclists Mary Thompson and Peter Root. Their film is on their blog and can be found here: www.twoonfourwheels.com/archives/2344 ]]>
This tune appears in the "Cycling Central Asia" film made by the Britisch cyclists Mary Thompson and Peter Root. Their film is on their blog and can be found here: www.twoonfourwheels.com/archives/2344 ]]> 39065 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 15:45:05 +0200 2014-05-19T15:45:05+02:00 1:40 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/guitar-intermezzo/ 39035 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 13:20:10 +0200 2014-05-19T13:20:10+02:00 1:28 https://hearthis.at/fredvangestel/adagio-triste/ 39021 no no Mon, 19 May 2014 11:49:06 +0200 2014-05-19T11:49:06+02:00 3:05