- From motif to structure: using five to ten emotional adjectives, exploring ideas at the piano, and sketching a timeline for a piece’s intensity and climax.
- How improvisation can reveal unexpected directions, and how the piano helps test harmonies and musical colors.
- The First of Everything: lyricism, soaring melodies, and touches of minimalism.
- Why concert works, streaming albums, and film scores call for different priorities—from the musicians playing a piece to the characters on screen.
- How a move to Los Angeles during the writers’ strike led to a social media series transforming strangers’ hummed melodies into compositions.
- Clarity and service in composition: helping listeners feel the music and remember even three to five notes.
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Soundboard features conversations on artistry and craftsmanship between Ben Finane, Director of Content at Steinway & Sons, and distinguished pianists, musicians, artists, and creatives. Soundboard seeks out inspiration, hones in on the creative process, parses influences, and attempts to diagnose artistic greatness.
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