Chris Huelsbeck - The Piano Collection (Kickstarter)

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CitazioneIntroducing "The Piano Collection" Album and Limited Edition Biographical Score Book of Chris Huelsbeck's Greatest Hits!

Join us and take part in the creation of The Chris Huelsbeck Piano Album & The Limited Edition Biographical Score Book. The album will feature the greatest hits by Chris Huelsbeck, performed by Patrick Nevian as wonderful piano renditions.

"I'm very excited about this project which I had planned for a very long time! And with all your help and my excellent team we will be able to make history again! :)"

Special: For the first time, Chris Huelsbeck's music will also be available as downloadable sheet music and A Limited Edition Premium Printed and Bound Biographical Score Book! This first edition of 500 limited Score books will be numbered and signed in order of the pledges received and with the higher pledge levels from $119 you'll also get your CD numbered and signed [001-100]!

Pianist Patrick Nevian was our perfect choice to arrange and perform the music, since he is a big fan of Chris Huelsbeck's music and had already released a number of fantastic piano renditions of classic Amiga game soundtracks. His natural talent and understanding of the music makes the album recordings shine. Aside from running the audio production of the album, Chris will of course also be supervising and discuss the evolving arrangements with Patrick. Together they will make sure that they turn out absolutely perfect.

Chris' long term partners in orchestral game music Sound of Games are responsible for the realisation of the Score Book including the Biographical Content for which Audun Sørlie will provide the text.


THE SCORE BOOK

The first edition of the Score Book will be strictly limited to 500 copies and individually numbered and signed. Higher pledge levels will receive lower numbers. The order of pledges will be tracked so that the first backers will again get the lowest number in their reward category.

THE CHRIS HUELSBECK STORY will be an essential part of the Score Book; it will contain never-before published autobiographical material about Chris. Read about the inspirations behind his compositions, how he started making music in his childhood, and his musical path that included inventing his own music technology that brought him on top of the C64, Amiga and many game audio productions (for all of which he ultimately received a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Game Audio Network Guild).

Each piece's story contains photos and screenshots of Chris and his work.


THE SHEET MUSIC is transcribed in detail, as performed by Patrick Nevian.  Each piece also includes a second score for beginners, so that players of all levels can enjoy playing Chris' music.  Even those who aren't trained musicians can enjoy and visually follow along with the scores while listening to the Album, and get an impression about the passionate arrangements.

This is the very first time in game music history that scores of a game music composer will be published in such a detailed way!

Sound of Games have more than 15 years of experience in writing score music. Over the years they worked with Chris on several projects, and they will take care to bring about a perfect experience in Chris' story and the sheet music.


THE ALBUM

The piano is such a fantastic instrument to showcase music in its purest form. With no big sound or orchestration to hide behind, the music has to stand on its own. However, it is an exceptionally expressive instrument that can take the listener on incredible musical journeys.

Patrick Nevian is an experienced performer and recording artist of two Amiga Piano Albums and also produces his own band. In close collaboration with Chris, he will transform the music into a new exciting listening experience. Here are 2 previews from our first recording sessions:

The Great Bath (from Turrican 2) preview excerpt:
https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/178703756/download?secret_token=s-WBwiL&client_id=a3e059563d7fd3372b49b37f00a00bcf

R-Type Theme preview excerpt:
https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/178705216/download?secret_token=s-olbCn&client_id=a3e059563d7fd3372b49b37f00a00bcf

The final album recordings will be produced to the highest standards in our state-of-the-art studios and also professionally mastered.

Special CDs of this kind are becoming a rarity these days (and the first one hundred of these will also be numbered [001-100] and signed), so make sure to reserve yours before they are gone. Included are pieces from The Great Giana Sisters, Turrican, Apidya, R-Type, Gem'X, Extreme Assault, Jim Power and more, including surprises that will be revealed at a later date in the campaign.

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chris-huelsbeck/chris-huelsbeck-the-piano-collection-and-limited-s
http://www.huelsbeck.com/the-piano-collection (LINK AGGIORNATO nei contenuti rispetto a quanto postato ieri)

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CitazioneOfficial press release:  Chris Huelsbeck is introducing ,,The Piano Collection" Album and Limited Edition Biographical Score Book of his greatest Hits via Kickstarter

Chris Huelsbeck is back! After his successful "Turrican Soundtrack Anthology" he now returns with a new ambitious project:

"The Piano Collection" is the very first biographical piano sheet music collection and album of a game composer in the history of video game music. It contains never-before published autobiographical material about Chris.

Read about the inspirations behind his compositions, how he started making music in his childhood, and his musical path that included inventing his own music technology that brought him on top of the C64, Amiga and many game audio productions (for all of which he ultimately received a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Game Audio Network Guild).

"The Piano Collection" will be arranged and played by Patrick Nevian, an exceptional performer who already released two successful Amiga Piano Albums.

The Sheet Music of this book will be transcribed by Filipp Issa and Michael Stoeckemann from "Sound of Games", whose game music productions are heard by more than 50 Million gamers every month, and who worked with Chris on several projects over the years.

The first edition of the Score Book will be strictly limited to 500 copies and individually numbered and signed, as well as the CD. Fans can back the project beginning on November 30th on Kickstarter.



http://www.huelsbeck.com/the-piano-collection :inlove: :inlove: :inlove:

Lunedì parte questo nuovo progetto Kickstarter del buon Chris: The Piano Collection, un libro-biografia con tonnellate di partiture e dettagli sulle sue composizioni più importanti, e naturalmente un CD audio dal medesimo titolo.

Aggiornerò il thread all'apertura ufficiale del Kickstarter.

Turrican3


Turrican3

Citazione di: Turrican3 il  1 Dicembre, 2014, 12:21:25Pagina Kickstarter attivata, il progetto è già ampiamente finanziato.

...e naturalmente tra i backer c'è pure il sottoscritto. :teeth:

:bowdown: Chris :bowdx:

Turrican3

CitazioneChris Huelsbeck ‏@Chris_Huelsbeck
Yesterday on Twitch we revealed a downloadable Holiday gift for all our backers. Download links in Update #12 :)

https://soundcloud.com/chris_huelsbeck/the-piano-collection-christmas-theme-excerpt/s-qS7k2

https://twitter.com/Chris_Huelsbeck/status/546980366091702273

Corposo e graditissimo omaggio natalizio di Chris Huelsbeck ai finanziatori del progetto: early version completa di uno dei brani (preview nel link sopracitato), con relativo doppio spartito full/principianti e note di realizzazione, che verrà incluso nel CD.

Brano che peraltro conosco bene nella sua versione originale, essendo uno dei pochi possessori del cd promozionale realizzato per conto di Acclaim all'epoca da SynSONIQ Records, che include il suddetto pezzo. :inlove:

Turrican3

Prima anteprima ufficiale per backer del mio livello (e superiori), la title track di R-Type per Amiga.

Credo che ci siano tutte le potenzialità per un gran bel progetto, non credevo potessero donare questa resa utilizzando "solo" un pianoforte. :inlove: :gogogo:

Turrican3

CitazioneLast night we had another fun Twitch update for "The Piano Collection" and the biggest news is that a few days ago we actually after all did surpass our 80k stretch goal, which is phenomenal, because it really was a stretch - but with all your help we made it! :)

That means we're recording a bonus track with full orchestra. We already booked it and it's the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra (the same orchestra that we hired for "The War of the Worlds" and "Infinite Space"; the're also famous for Hollywood Film and TV productions and video game scores like "Journey" for example).

Filipp and Michael will travel to Macedonia to be there and direct the session as well as shoot video and photos of the recording, which we are planning to share in some form with you. For me the journey would be a bit far, but I'll tune in via their live client remote connection and Skype. The recording is scheduled for the 18. of April.

During the show we also revealed which piece we decided to give this special orchestral treatment and it will be "Apidya Credits", which after careful deliberation of all the pieces that Patrick arranged came out as the strongest candidate.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chris-huelsbeck/chris-huelsbeck-the-piano-collection-and-limited-s/posts/1175482

Si farà il pezzo con l'orchestra, ed è persino uno dei miei preferiti: quella dei titoli di coda/credits di Apidya. :inlove:

Turrican3

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Arrivato ieri a sorpresa il pacco con il libro ed il CD limited no.137/500, con un rispetto TOTALE dei tempi previsti in fase di raccolta fondi peraltro.

Ancora una volta il buon Chris sembra aver fatto un ottimo lavoro, il lavoro di ri-arrangiamento per pianoforte (talvolta anche sorprendentemente) l'ho trovato davvero molto molto apprezzabile per la quasi totalità dei brani selezionati. Gli spartiti sono inoltre presentati in due versioni, una completa e l'altra semplificata per principianti, quindi perfetta per me qualora volessi riprendere a strimpellare. :gogogo:

Estremamente gradita anche la parte puramente testuale del libro: racconta un po' la storia professionale di Chris Huelsbeck dagli esordi ad oggi, con parecchie foto mai viste, ed una pagina dedicata al dietro le quinte di ciascun gioco facente parte della raccolta.

Ho colto un piccolo refuso sfogliando velocemente il tutto (schermata di gioco tratta da Turrican 1, etichetta che la attribuisce invece a Turrican 3) ma vabbè, nulla che un fan non sia in grado di "intercettare". Vedremo se ce ne stanno altri leggendo il tutto come si deve, ma spero proprio di no!

PS: da notare l'indirizzo, o meglio il nominativo di consegna, lol :D

Joe


Turrican3

In realtà non sono poi COSÌ personaggio: è il mio nickname su Kickstarter, immagino lo abbiano messo di default assieme al nome reale (presente anch'esso nell'etichetta) :notooth:

Turrican3

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Scopro soltanto oggi che è in arrivo The Piano Collection - volume 2. :|

EDIT in realtà è parzialmente vero, nel senso che pare persino che in qualche modo io abbia persino contribuito indirettamente alla lista delle canzoni... il problema è che quella è una sezione del forum che frequento poco, quindi mi ero totalmente perso il successivo thread di conferma del via libera al progetto. Seguo poi zio Chris su Twitter, ma se ne ha fatto menzione ahimè mi è del tutto sfuggito (qua tuttavia potrebbe essere colpa dell'algoritmo :|)

Turrican3