Concert: #52 - MicroFest II – New York City
Concert #8 – “Keyboard Idealism”
Date: June 15, 1991
Place: Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, NYC
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JC (1912-1992) is recognized as an important innovator in many areas, such as percussion music, noise liberation, philosophical dadaism, and prepared piano. Daughters was composed in 1945 for dance and has 19 distinct atmospheric sections. It was recorded for the first time by Joshua Pierce on the Wergo label (WER 60157-50). It utilizes advanced preparations of 36 keys of a traditionally tuned piano by placing various implements (e.g., rubber, screws, bolts, etc.) between the strings inside the piano. The effect is of rich aggregates of timbral inharmonicity, distorting the usual piano sound by turning the instrument into a colorful percussion ensemble.
Minimal and emotionally evocative compositions for solo piano in the Ryuichi Sakamoto vein from Cincinnati's Tristan Eckerson. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 18, 2020