Studio Philharmonico

In 1979 my parents gave me a Cassette tape recorder as a present for Christmas. Immediately I began to record myself playing on the piano. I had attempted around that time to write down a few composition with pen and notepaper, but that was such a tedious process... so I had the idea to just record myself improvising music on the piano, playing with chords, melodies, themes, then later I would listen and transcribe things, making compositions out of that raw material. In 1979 I had gotten that piano as a present from my grandmother: a nice upright Yamaha, shiny dark mahogany wood. It was a bit higher than most uprights and had a phantastic clear and bright sound. Also was easy to play, the keys went so light. And so I began my musical diary: live improvisations not every day, but every few days. Reflecting my moods, emotions, events, with live play. Sometimes ty fingers would play by themselves, without plan or concept. Often musical themes similar to the music I was just playing and l

A new set of music files was ready, and I wanted to publish them online. These were piano improvisations which I had created many years ago (in 1999) but which I never had published. Live improvisations on piano. First I had in mind to revive my Tunecore account which I had  more than 10 years go and which I recently had re-activated. But when searching for the Tunecore sight, Google popped to me an ad titled "Still using Tunecore? Try MusicDiffusion". Later I saw a different ad by them: "Still using Soundrop?" It appears that MusicDiffusion are driving an aggressive advertisement campaign. User Verification So I decided to give them a try with my new release for MusiEmotica. The very first thing when trying to create an account and create a release was that I needed to be verified, with picture ID. They used an external site, I had to present my photo ID and a selfie with my mobile phone. Did work ok without any problems. Setting up my Release Then I set up my rele

Studio Philharmonico is also on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/studiophilharmonico 

Lots of work to bring all the social media settings in line... now I have also updated my page at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/studiophilharmonico/

Lots of work to do in the "marketing department"...  I have now renamed my Facebook Page to "Studio Philharmonico". The Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/studio.philharmonico

Am trying to also create postings automatically on Facebook by using @IFTTT.

I have now setup @IFTTT at https://ifttt.com/explore  for automatically creating a tweet here, whenever I write a new post on this  my blog .  Works great! I configured two kinds of tweets:  One general tweet like this, where only the link to the post is shown.  And one tweet where the whole post is shown, when @IFTTT is used as a label. That post must be relatively short, to fit into one single tweet. So also in the blog here I am using the tags with preceding @ or #, so that they can be shown properly on X. One problem is that if the label @IFTTT is used, there are two tweets sent: the standard one, and the one with the full posting. This is because IFTTT does not have a way of doing something when a label is not there.

 Live improvisation on piano. More than 12 minutes long. Recorded on 25 Dec 2023. Here is the link to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1zPhsX9elfpGTMRjXBkIMx

Recently I uploaded some of my live piano improvisations to various online music distributors. And I got a surprising result: classical piano music is not being accepted for streaming at several sites.  I got this note from Soundrop that my newest "Long Piano Fantasy" " was determined to be ineligible for delivery to Automated Claiming Services".   I checked their reasons given on the reasons for this, which they explain here: https://support.soundrop.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037548231-What-Is-Eligible-for-Automated-Claiming Surprisingly to me, it is stated that "Piano-only instrumentals" are ineligible for this. WHY???? Another similar experience with MusicDiffusion: Several of the selected distribution channels do not accept classical piano: Beatport Facebook iTunes / Apple Music YouTube Audio Content ID Again, why is this???

Here is a live improvisation on piano: DREAMERY, from the album "Slow Emotions Alive". Duration: 3:38. This is the link to the streaming on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0KVOblf6mkFzUp068DhZnl

My music is now on Amazon Music. I wanted to check this, and did login to Amazon with my German Prime account. I get this screen: When clicking on "Jetzt streamen", I am forwarded to the UK Amazon site with a new login.  So what is wrong here???

Twitter (now X) is still a good platform for posting info and linking with audiences. So I did setup a new account: https://twitter.com/SPhilharmonico  . I still will keep the previous Twitter account  https://twitter.com/reinholdsmusic  , but all new releases will be announced on this new Twitter account, and I will fade out the old one.

From the statistics analysis at DittoMusic the Karelia suite has now more than 1400 streams (as of 13 Feb).  After a brief lull, the number of streams is actually going up. The first days the "Ballade" was leading. Now the "Intermezzo" has taken over, with about 160 streams on Tuesday. I need to do some more advertising about the Karelia Suite rendition.

Just checked on Ditto Music: their analytics tools work great! Here is a view of the streaming statistics for the Karelia Suite: it really has taken off last Friday. Not sure, why - suddenly people have discovered this recording on Spotify. Statistics over the three tracks of the Karelia Suite recording. It seems like the Ballade was most popular. Strangely, the joyful Alla Marcia is now less popular than the other two movements. The statistics of the whole suite by country looks like this: Statistics of my Karelia Suite from DittoMusic by country

After more browsing on YouTube, I found the channel with music recordings of Virtual Philharmonic Orchestra. This is the predecessor of Studio Philharmonico. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hjhbNLcgyzKvzxa4nvhJg All these previous recordings will be edited, updated, improved, and then re-released under the label "Studio Philharmonico". But for keeping the history, I will not delete these old legacy recordings of Virtual Philharmonic, which were created between 1997 to 2023.

When checking YouTube, I noticed that there is now a channel for MusiEmotica: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr4l73yMn8jQEEUn-f0r__A Nice! LevelMusic did a good job in sending my music to streaming sites.

In 2016 I found a new music distribution service, called LOUDR. They offered a subscription-free distribution of music and also took care of "cover" recordings, i.e. music composed by others. This seemed like a great idea for classical music which was still under copyright protection, because the composer was less than 70 years dead. And so I published a few such "cover" recordings, music by Hindemith, Prokofiev, Kodaly, Poulen. It seemed to work well, and I got monthly statements about the statistics. Not many listeners, the income was just pennies. But these contemporary classical music compositions are just not so popular. In the meantime, LOUDR changed their name to SOUNDROP . Fine with me. When I started to consider again publishing my music in Jan.2024, I created a new release there. There was now a fee for each track: $0.99 . OK, I did pay for 7 tracks. And then I waited. In previous years the release had happened quite fast. But now, nothing.  There was the

DittoMusic has a nice feature: to present one page with a few links to online music streaming services. The one for the Karelia Suite is here: https://ditto.fm/karelia-suite This is the very same method that also LevelMusic is using to give access to streaming services. I wonder if these two collaborate... And I wonder how many of those selected streaming sites will actually be shown in this widget...

I just checked today, and now my release is on 7 sites:  https://levelmusic.lnk.to/VaxpSM    The album has been played 6 times at Spotify and 0 times at Apple Music. It is still most popular in the Republic of Korea.