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Apr 11 2007

New music for prepared piano

Posted by Pliable in Contemporary Classical, Experimental Music, Festivals, Music Instruments, Piano, Strange

For the full story on the new aleatoric work seen being performed above on a Bösendorfer at the Two Moors Festival in the UK, take An Overgrown Path. Image credit BBC News 

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2 Responses to “New music for prepared piano”
  1. Alex Ross says:
    April 11, 2007 at 11:14 am

    I hope Philip Corner is getting royalties.

  2. tig says:
    April 11, 2007 at 2:25 pm

    Incidentally, the The Guardian’s report gives a clue as to whether the result would have sounded like a Tex Avery cartoon:

    As its wooden casing splintered, it gave a death rattle described by Ms Adie as “a deafening noise like 10 honky-tonk pianos being hit by mallets”. Her husband John, the festival’s manager, said: “It made an incredible racket—like something from a cartoon.”

    S, tig

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