On March 5th, 6pm at the Royal College of Music you will have the great pleasure of seeing some of the best pianists I’ve seen in contemporary music in ‘Pianos and Plugs’ run by the unstoppable force, Antoine Francoise. Last year this concert was an incredible event and this year he promises us even more craziness!
Rumours are about the Denis Smalley will be around to watch RCM pianist Denise Lee performing his piece ‘Piano Nets’ which we got a taster of last year. Denise will be performing all three movements this year on Piano + Tape.
My piece, entitled ‘Judgement’ features 3 pianos, 5 performers, and so much electronic goodness that if I added any more I’d have to call the piece ‘Crash Inevitable’ which I reserve for use in a future piece hehe!
Not much info yet but here’s a screenshot of how the animated graphic score looks so far -
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The score evolves based on rules from John Conway’s ‘Game of Life’
Notes live, die, and in groups they even ‘eat’ other notes
Before a note dies, it extends its arms to become a chord with nearby notes, if there are none it dies :(
As for the non-score elements, expect to see microphone operators, wiimote shaking, and a surface speaker installed in a 3rd piano. For more details check out http://www.rcm.ac.uk/Events/Piano+Fever!
I’m sending you full waves of geekish enthusiasm