Misplaced Lens Cap
Product Placement
Keni
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
KIROKAZE
No title available
RMH
hello vonnie
No title available
tannertan36
Andulka
Kaledo Art
we're not kids anymore.
art blog(derogatory)
Jules of Nature
Show & Tell
Three Goblin Art
Love Begins
ellievsbear
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from India
seen from Singapore
seen from Hong Kong SAR China
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from Mexico
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from France
seen from Singapore
seen from Romania
seen from United States
@92keyshq
The all white background was bugging me because it blended too much with our clothes lol. So now we got some grey (gray?) gradient (greydient?) happening. Now the tedious process of updating the profile pic again on all DSPs which I also have to bother @awal again to help with that. Sorry. 🙁 #violin #piano https://www.instagram.com/p/B1puBgJgMth/?igshid=qxzpex7mukr6
We are in the final month now of production for our Christmas album! A lot of the songs have gone through their initial round of mixing and they sound so freaking good. Chloe's violin playing is taking 92 Keys to a high industry level which is exciting. We haven't got an exact release date but the idea is somewhere within the 3rd or 4th week of October. This is why we have to submit to our distributor by Sept 6, because they need six weeks to work with us on putting together a playlist marketing package for the various DSPs. I know that probably feels early for a Christmas release but I've looked at quite a few other major artists with Universal and Sony and the bulk of them aim for that time period for their Christmas projects. The thinking is to maximize the time for promotion of the new music, because as soon as January hits, streams/sales will plummet, obviously. So having two full months to hit the ground hard on marketing can pay off rather than releasing during Thanksgiving and only getting about 3-4 weeks. Today my 9th Zen Piano album released, Zen Piano: Majestic. And I just registered my 140th song with the publisher, it's a lot of fun watching that catalog grow. The annoying thing with music publishing is it takes forevvver for things to get processed with all global societies and then to actually start getting reports from the endless list of reporting companies. For example, on May 3, 2018 I registered one of the first songs we did with 92 Keys, Little Star, and I am just barely starting to get various regional statements but only like 4 territories so far...and there are 226 territories total. It's like at least 2 years from the time you register the song to when you start getting complete reports. Crazy. I wish it was faster. Anyways, back to work! #violin #piano #92keys #violinist #pianist #christmas #album #musicvideo https://www.instagram.com/p/B0oM4nyALbH/?igshid=3090qz984e1n
Hooray, 92 Keys finally has a profile picture to use on all music streaming services that actually represents that this is a duo group, not just some yahoo with a red piano, lol. We took this pic right before filming a very powerful and dramatic arrangement of Oh Come Emmanuel that I can't wait for everyone to see. Now what we need is a completed Christmas album. The most important part. We finished the bulk of recording a few weeks ago in Utah. Chloé gets the fun of finishing a few more songs in Dallas later next month after her 2nd year of producing the Chloé Trevor Music Academy (@chloetrevor_musicacademy), starting soon! @mickelsenmusic is hard at work finishing comps of all the recordings so that our mixer Michael Greene can make these songs really come to life. Then it's off to mastering with a goal of hitting our submission date of Sept. 6. Coming up fast. It's crazy how early things have to be finished and submitted for a Christmas release. Side note: Mike worked on the sound engineering for one of my favorite games ever, Guild Wars 2. :o So that's poetic for me heh. The sound design in that game is really incredible. Meanwhile, I (Trevor) am back in Boise living the dream and working on backend stuff so that this album can be launched as smoothly as possible. What even is backend stuff? I dunno. It's just stuff, I guess. Also, my Zen Piano albums continue to release every month on the 1st. Next one coming up is Zen Piano: Majestic, out on August 1. It's completely different from 92 Keys music, it's background piano music that people use to study, sleep and whatnot. But if you ever have the need for it, just look up Trevor Loucks on any platform and you'll be golden. Or go here: https://92keys.io/zen-piano Hope everyone is having a great summer. Went camping this last weekend and boy was it nice to go off-grid. Doing it again next month, too, but this one will be a full on backpacking trip. Should honestly probably go every weekend to maintain balance. I love the outdoors and I live in one of the best states in the country for people like that. #violin #piano #christmas #92keys #album https://www.instagram.com/p/B0D8o35gbek/?igshid=1tns26w56if8g
Great advice in this post from Chloé. @chloetrevor_violin: Click “more” for today’s Q&A! Here’s some BTS from our music video shoot in Utah with @92keys! Ignore the giant metronome😂 This is the violin part I wrote for our arrangement of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”. I had such an incredible time working with Trevor, composer @mickelsenmusic, the audio engineers at Funk Studios, and videographer @nicksalesmusic! I can’t wait for you all to hear the completed album! Keep an eye out for the release in October!⠀ Today's Q&A is brought to you by @arweenie15! Her question is: Have you ever messed up in a performance?⠀ Guys, I've messed up in performances a lot 😂 This can range from not phrasing something the way I wanted to, to playing an out of tune note, to missing a shift, or fumbling through a few beats of a measure. This is completely normal and happens to everyone! We are not robots or machines and we’re not supposed to sound like them.⠀ Is performing as beautifully and accurately as possible the ideal? Yes, but the purpose of music is not to play perfectly. The purpose of music is to convey emotion and connect with people. To touch people’s hearts. One can perform an entire piece perfectly without touching someone’s heart - especially if the *focus* is on perfection. That’s why when we perform our focus should be on the true purpose of music. This relieves a lot of pressure and stress, and helps us to recover quickly when we have a “slip” in a performance. Interestingly it’s the mistakes that actually make us seem more human and help us to connect with our audiences better! (See 2 Corinthians 4:7 for the way I like to view mistakes😊)⠀ It’s easy to think “yeah, but there are critics listening and people who might make fun of me for messing up” - and to that I say: “Remember who you are playing for.” Are the critics and the people who would make fun of you really the people who are performing for? Your real audience wants to hear you - the authentic you. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzYKIb4ALUL/?igshid=mqwfm2k3jokf
@mickelsenmusic “Angels We Have Heard on High” from our recording session for @92keys new Christmas album featuring @chloetrevor_violin on violin arranged by @mickelsenmusic. At @funkstudios #violin #piano #orchestra #studio #producer #arranger #composer #sessionmusician #christmas #92keys #shanemickelsen #chloetrevor #funkstudios #baton #conductor https://www.instagram.com/p/BzWIoquA-aH/?igshid=18ocoshf7kdoc
@mickelsenmusic “Angels We Have Heard on High” from our recording session for @92keys new Christmas album featuring @chloetrevor_violin on violin arranged by @mickelsenmusic. At @funkstudios #violin #piano #orchestra #studio #producer #arranger #composer #sessionmusician #christmas #92keys #shanemickelsen #chloetrevor #funkstudios #baton #conductor https://www.instagram.com/p/BzWITr0grZL/?igshid=vbs0cqequ4l3
Day 6: Final day. 🙂 One of my favorite things in life is being around people who are productive, efficient, and know what they are doing. Essentially, experts. Everyone at Funk Studios, the sound engineers, Shane, Chloé, the session players, the orchestra manager, they all easily fit that description so it’s a strong high to come off of. Now we kind of go back underground to work on the mixing and prepping the project for a Christmas season launch. I imagine at some point later this summer we will decide on a release date. But time to go back to Boise now. Booooo. Oh well, we are already planning the next round of this so it’s time to start writing again. That’s a different kind of fun, just a lot more lonely since it has to be done alone and away from people. Tonight I get to go to @jenniferthomas623’s concert though! Just hanging around SLC until it starts this evening. One more thing, we need to get Shane a 92 Keys shirt lol. #violin #piano #92keys (Funk Studios Utah) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzL5E_qgtL_/?igshid=o8q52s69rme8
Day 5: I had so much fun watching the orchestra record today and @mickelsenmusic conducting. The amount of layering going into each song is really amazing. This video only shows part of the string layering, later in the afternoon we recorded the brass and woodwind parts. Percussion elements will be sampled in later as well. Then there is the piano (woo!) to add in and of course the solo violin of @chloetrevor_violin - add it all up and I'm a happy camper. :D Even just the raw sound was great, once it goes through mixing and mastering I won't even know how to describe. #violin #piano #92keys (Funk Studios Utah) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzKUShNgRQV/?igshid=tha24hcl4h6
Day 4: Monday is no longer a terrible day, at least not this week. Back at the studio today, Chloe's endurance is quite impressive with nearly 20 hours of practice and recording in the last two days. The performances sounded amazing from my perspective sitting behind producer Shane and the sound engineer. It's a lot of fun watching the experts work. Tomorrow is orchestra day! We got the pros coming in to lay down string and brass sections. Apparently, I'm told when you hire pros like these musicians, the amount of time it takes to track sections is incredibly fast and we will potentially be finishing three songs per hour with the orchestra. :o Crazy. Should have some interesting video clips tomorrow night. #violin #piano #92keys #christmas #album #nametbdsomeoneplzsendhelp (Funk Studios Utah) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzHwQWXArp4/?igshid=1u1gzqkernvj8
Day 3: There’s something on the floor. No production work today so here are more pics from yesterday haha. We took A TON of photos in front of the white wall in the hopes that one of them will be suitable as the album cover for this Christmas album. I absolutely love the minimalist feel to it. We'll have to do the social media voting thing like we did last year for Spring of Fire to help settle the right style/pose/design that will be final product. Album covers are so brutally important to get right as the product is distributed by @awal to dozens and dozens of DSPs and other commercial licensing services they work with. Makes all the difference for someone to see it in a split second and decide to hop in for a 5 second audio test drive. But I think we got some good ones! Thanks to @alexa_design_photo for coming out to get those high-quality images. Looking forward to seeing them. Tomorrow we will be back to recording at the studio, primarily working on the bulk of @mickelsenmusic arrangements on the album. We got a epic arrangement of Carol of the Bells on the docket which I'm personally looking forward to the most. And some other songs that would fit perfectly on a Hallmark Christmas movie. I want to put in the leg work to get one of these synced for their 2020 movie lineup, that would be cool. :D #violin #piano #92keys #christmas #album https://www.instagram.com/p/BzFB-rAAtmz/?igshid=17c263s484n0d
Day 2: Unreal lighting. These music videos we filmed today are going to a new level for us. Just sad it will still be awhile before they can release for Christmas season. 😟 #violin #piano #92keys #christmas #album (Studio Elevn) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzDDIL9AQiD/?igshid=z5wcxhchpdu4
Day 1: Spying on Chloe in the tracking booth. 🔍 First day of our Christmas album production was a success! Chloe landed to Utah on time, my car didn’t die driving down from Boise and Shane got us moving with the first round of recording. The bulk of recording will be next week but was nice to get through a warm-up phase today. This weekend we will film two music vids for the album. So many high energy and dramatic songs on this project, my favorite kind, very excited to hear the rest of Chloe’s violin tracking. And the orchestra on Tuesday! #violin #piano #92keys #album #studio #recording #christmas (Funk Studios Utah) https://www.instagram.com/p/By_93N_AJPU/?igshid=149kixkf7hi9n
It’s almost time to record a bunch of new music! In a little over a week Chloé and I will rendezvous in Utah (from Texas and Idaho) and knock out a high energy Christmas album with @mickelsenmusic for this November. Maybe we can also take a few new pics so I don’t have to keep using this one lol. The cool thing about this album that we haven’t done with 92 Keys before is record with a full orchestra. So we have to use a studio that can handle that setup with tons of musicians. Will be lots of fun and sound amazing! I’m going to work super hard at posting stuff because my normal day to day isn’t so interesting, but this will be! #violin #piano #album #christmas https://www.instagram.com/p/BylRr4cAqTC/?igshid=4h7n0c6gjt5c
#tbt to seven years ago, during a two year music teaching stint in Rwanda. This was a Christmas concert we did for the students at AUCA. My fav dude is the one in the red shirt lol. #piano #performance #music #christmas #rwanda #kigali #auca #tbt #musicvideo #musica #musician #musical #pianocover #pianolovers (Kigali, Rwanda) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxh8F2og1od/?igshid=lveavjazzmud
#tbt to fourteen years ago, my High School Senior Piano Recital. 🙂 I don’t have nearly the catalog of orchestra performances that @chloetrevor_violin has. Probably about 500-600 needed to catch up! But in one month Chloé and I will get to record with a full orchestra in Salt Lake City! With @mickelsenmusic leading that orchestra. This is for a fully produced 92 Keys Christmas album coming this November. Woohoo! I can’t wait. We’ve got some pretty wild and dramatic Christmas arrangement cooking in the kitchen. 🎻 🎹 #violin #piano #film #tbt #christmas https://www.instagram.com/p/BxP918fAuru/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=d2m88vzsdtkz
The dilemma of writing original music vs. arrangements of popular songs is a constant discussion in my head. Original music gives you a lot more control and a stronger ability to tell a story through a music video. This video is a perfect example of that, look up Jordan's Song on 92Keys.com if you wish to get the full picture of what this video is about. Also, you feel a lot more personal ownership over the entire package vs. repurposing a popular melody. And then of course, cover music has its own advantages. Instant recognizability being one of them. 92 Keys is producing two albums this year for release Christmas 2019 and Spring 2020. 24 songs total, 21 of which are covers and 3 are originals I wrote. Combine those 21 new covers with the 8 additional covers on our Spring of Fire album from 2018 and that gives us 29 potential music videos to film that are all cover songs. So the question I'm asking myself right now, is that enough? Can we write a full album next of only originals that will each have their own story or should we write one more of songs people already know? Movie/TV Show themes is something that would be really fun for violin/piano. :D I actually don't know currently. Either way though, it's all a blast for me, way better than my day job. Working on 92 Keys music is something that keeps me motivated even though I don't get to spend the majority of my time on it. #piano #violin #film #violinist #pianist #pianocover #violincover #violinistas #violinista #violins #violino #music #musicvideo #musica #idaho #idahome (Boise, Idaho) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwXXCcyAgN7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1204fcb9aixvn
This last weekend I was out in Adrian, Oregon and driving back to Boise happened to take me right past the old Huston School we filmed this video at. When I saw it on the left I did an immediate U-Turn because it looked SO different from what I remembered three years ago when we filmed this. There is a roof now! It's completely different. The owners have busted hard turning the nearly destroyed 101 year old school building into an actual house. I was filthy from the race in Adrian that morning and wasn't planning on stopping there. But after parking, the father of the owner actually pulled up at the same time and invited me into the house and they gave me the whole tour. I can't believe how amazing it looks now inside. It was also the first time I actually got to meet the owners. When we were trying to get permission to film here three years ago, they were in Portland and we only talked on the phone. Super nice and very impressive what they have done with the building to turn it into a home. This is on the west side of Canyon County in Huston, ID. The whole story behind this video and building is at 92keys.com/videos/little-star #piano #violin #film #violinist #pianist #pianocover #violincover #violinistas #violinista #violins #violino #music #musicvideo #musica #idaho #idahome (Huston, Idaho) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvhLkdQA6qj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rmy8l1d82v9d