If you go through our numerous videos from the CleanCloud  Villum Spring, Summer and 🗻 Mt. Helmos CHOPIN campaigns, you will notice that many feature soundtracks recorded with yours truly on the piano (either solo or in chamber music ensembles). One reason was to avoid copyright, but another of course was my love for classical music and to add a personal (and admittedly bold) touch to videos that document an amazing set of experiments by a large dream-team of scientists. 

Another reason came from the inception of the CleanCloud campaigns. Their "selling point" in the proposal was to focus on improving and enriching ground-based and space-bourne remote sensing (and of course, improve process understanding which all campaigns aim for). This concept came while playing some... Chopin during the proposal writing phase (can you find out which piece it was? hint: it's the first piece from the first CHOPIN video on our channel, Fall moments). So when planning the Mt.Helmos campaign, we proposed some names, one of which was "CHOPIN", and it won by popular vote! Cool, no?

The videos contain some segments from older performances (to honor magic moments and friends of the past) but also include some newer recordings that were unplanned. The weekend before CHOPIN started, I walked by the local piano store with my son, was inspired to enter and play on some awesome pianos (that make anything you play sound amazing) and recorded together some pieces on a cellphone. We had a wonderful time, and here are some excerpts of the pieces. Forgive the mistakes, the pieces were played without any preparation (just whatever was in memory), but I loved it and hope you like it too! (can you find out in which CleanCloud videos they appear in?).