Dr. Michael Knopf | Public figure
Dr. Michael Knopf
Phone: +61 431 025 958
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23.01.2022 Michael Knopf has a show on 2015-07-11 at 18:00 @ Upfront Club in Maleny, QLD http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5ze42t
23.01.2022 Introducing my long-term composition project: Once Around the Sun for solo guitar. This is a collection of 365 solo guitar pieces, one for each day of a year. The first volume of ninety works were written over a seven week period in early 2017 and the opus is currently in progress as I am well into Volume 2 of 4. I invite the guitar community's involvement from professionals and students alike to engage the music and upload their performances on You Tube so that they can be ...commented on and the interpretative gamut of each piece be explored. This will assist my project critically and I can see how players do with the pieces. If anyone would like the complete volume, message me with your email and I'll send a link for download. A donation via Paypal would be welcome. no. 39 is a complete work and there are sample pages from many of the pieces in Volume 1.
22.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Rain Outside by Michael D. Knopf" http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5vlc72
22.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Bamboo & Running Waters by M. Knopf" http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5vkxxw
22.01.2022 https://youtu.be/U4gdD2XCfgs
21.01.2022 This is the full video of my performance of At the Tomb of the Maestro from Once Around the Sun (no. 1) in the Segovia Museum at Linares, Spain on April 14, 2018. Please enjoy and share! https://youtu.be/1q4kvRVQj8Y
19.01.2022 Thanks to the good people at Green Jam at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre for making our show a fun-great occasion! Thanks also to the two Lachlans for their inspiring playing! Three excerpts from the gig here. https://youtu.be/MZZZSeV5ChU
18.01.2022 This is one of my pieces (no. 2) from "Once Around the Sun" (279 pieces in collection so far!). Entitled "Cliff and Moon" it was inspired by a moon rise I witnessed in the Atherton Tablelands after a performance. The tablelands have an abrupt horizon from where I was driving so the moon had edged up wierdly with spectral clouds.
18.01.2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmX0O2HB43w This is a video recording of the premiere of my piece for violin, clarinet, piano and audio (filtered recording of the Sun!) The trio Plexus performed this in 2013 in Melbourne. The piece was well received and I do want to say that this music is not for the faint hearted! The music and its title is a reference to the presence of audio of the vibrations of our sun, Sol, transposed up 300,000 octaves! THese audio segments appear at t...he start and other places in the piece along with the instruments sometimes mimicking them. The piece is brazen and unforgiving but a lot of fun. The sound gives a fair representation though the camera image was bad in the concert hall light. Notes follow: The audio file used as the introduction to the work is also its primary inspiration. These are my own mix of several filtered and transposed audio files prepared by scientists at the University of Birmingham using helioseismology. (Bison - Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network. see: http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/index.php?page=bison) My thanks to Graham Verner and Brek Miller for their assistance and permission to use these in my work. The piece is inspired by these recordings but does not convey anything more than music. This is my first work deliberately using the Ten Forms of Change model (attributed to Coker 1972). I discovered these several years ago by reading Kim Stanley Robinson's futuristic novel The Memory of Whiteness. The novel follows the development of Sol system's premiere composer/performer using the 10 Forms in his work, realising that they are linked intrinsically with the fundamental reality of our universe. I have been periodically using these descriptions of musical change consciously in my composing and improvising as articulated strategies to direct creativity. Nonetheless, I do not adhere only to devices for their own sake, but instead, use them to foster my organic approach to composing. So, though I am conscious of specific strategies in composing, I essentially take a path of growth, where new musical ideas and concepts direct development, placement and contexts. My warmest thanks to the lovely and highly skilled people who make up Plexus. They too, understand the importance of providing new musical realities for our fellow humans to experience and explore.
17.01.2022 Here's a video of three little pieces (Jazz Musings) from my collection of 365 guitar works entitled Once Around the Sun. Do listen and share! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVYnTx32LkE
16.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Nearing Midnight by Michael D. Knopf" http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5vky2z
16.01.2022 This video was shot a few years ago. It is a piece that is spontaneously composed. This means that within the act of improvisation, I directly address musical form and structure whilst playing so that the piece has repetition in the appropriate places. Hope you enjoy it!
16.01.2022 I am teaming up with Italian/Australian jazz guitar virtuoso Andrea Vocaturo for a new duo to play great Jazz, beautiful Bossas and popular standards in southeast Queensland venues and festivals. Different combination of instruments and varied approaches results in some fun music. Enjoy our brief demo video! v://youtu.be/HAtSOUArOWw
15.01.2022 For guitarists, the first volume of my "Once Around the Sun" is available here as pdf download. 91 new works for classical guitar! http://michaelknopf.com//once-around-the-sun-volume-one-s/
15.01.2022 "Idyll" is an evocative piece for guitar written at the end of 2016 and is the 5th piece of 356 works for guitar that will, upon completion, constitute "Once Around the Sun". Please like and share! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2KUlHarHk&t=85s
12.01.2022 https://youtu.be/A51F3OR4GdU Here's another little piece from "The Atelier" 2017 for classical guitar . Enjoy and share...
12.01.2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHY5K_htGGE
12.01.2022 "Ballad Triste" is another totally improvised piece videoed in 2008 at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane.
12.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Brunswick Street Blues by Michael D. Knopf" http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5vlbrq
12.01.2022 This is a groove and rave piece recorded May 10, 2016 using a Gibson SG Tribute guitar and a Boss ME50 and RC1 Looper. Please like this here and on you tube for me! Grey Rock! ... Hope you enjoy it! https://youtu.be/FdcBikfBV_4
11.01.2022 Posted a new song: "The Caspian (7 String Classical guitar w/ alternate tuning)" http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5wgjz8
10.01.2022 This is my cello solo piece entitled "Earthshine" recorded by dear friend and wonder-muso Louise King from cello dreaming. This is a spacious and expressive piece I wrote in 2003 for my CD album "Still"(2006). A rich and spacious piece with many colours, melodies and unique expressions.Forever grateful for her friendship and her making my music live! Thank you Louise! (see her on Facebook). https://youtu.be/GofKz_oLBSw
09.01.2022 This is one of my pieces from "Once Around the Sun" (188 pieces in collection so far!). Entitled "Cliff and Moon" it was inspired by a moon rise I witnessed in the Atherton Tablelands in March 2017 after a performance. The tablelands have an abrupt horizon from where I was driving so the moon had edged up wierdly with spectral clouds.
06.01.2022 Hello all, here's a short piece I videoed recently. Not much to look at! ... but the music is okay! https://youtu.be/UyLkzBd1mUY
04.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Ancient Beauty - Raga like improvisation!" http://www.reverbnation.com/q/5wgk2c
02.01.2022 Just a reminder for the UpFront gig this Saturday night from 7 p.m. up at Maleny. Looking forward to seeing you there!
