Musical Design
It’s Alive!
Music 4 Gadgets Gizmos Gongs just went up on Tidal! Over the next week it’ll be available through a lot of other streaming sites, Apple
November 27, 2019
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About Me
Soon, very soon: Music 4 gadgets gizmos gongs
After a year or so of work on this thing I’ve been calling my CD project, I’ve finally just released it. Assuming no strangeness from those
November 23, 2019
About Me
About Mark
Want to know more about me? Maybe the most important thing is I teach students at all levels from complete beginners through to advanced professionals.
October 1, 2019
About Me
Mark Polishook’s long bio
I’m Dr. Mark Polishook. I assume you’ve arrived here because You might be considering me as your next teacher at the piano and of music.
September 22, 2019
Musical Design
Gadgets, gizmos, and gongs
Here, you’ll find a link to seven new compositions that juxtapose pianos, electronic instruments, iPads, and more. It’s all part of a collection of pieces that don’t have a name as a whole but will shortly enough. Depending upon when you come across this little snippet of text, if you across it, all of the pieces may be up on the usual streaming sites such as Apple Music and Spotify. But RIGHT NOW, as I write this little snippet, they’re not there! They’re only here! Here as in here within a link in this post.
July 30, 2019
Musical Design
The link to everything
The recording project is almost done. Album cover art is upcoming. And getting all materials to distributors, meaning Apple Music, Spotify, and all fine streaming services.
July 23, 2019
Piano Improvisation
There is something
The latest news from PolishookPiano. Said news includes a link to There is something. It also includes suggestions about how to improvise with a simple scale—it is so simple to improvise with a simple scale—but, yet, it’s not. The news also includes a short explanation about different kinds of ivory.
June 10, 2019
Earth setter 1
A rough mix of Earther Setter One for Steingraeber piano and Haken Continuum (mini)
April 18, 2019
Musical Design
The magnitude of force
A rough mix from my upcoming CD, a follow-up to It’s About Time, a solo piano recording I released last year. All recordings are and will be available on the iTunes store and Spotify and other purveyors of fine digitised music.
February 18, 2019
Musical Design
The 24 Shapes (in music) and why you should know them
Something endlessly fascinating about JS Bach’s 5th Prelude in the Well Tempered Clavier, you know, this prelude in D major, is the pattern on top of which it’s
February 3, 2019
Mark Polishook, currently based in Leicester in the UK, is known internationally as a jazz pianist and a composer. He is a former director of the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University in the United States.
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