LONDON: The Horse Hospital

Saturday 29th June, 2013

7:30pm

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PIANIST JUSTIN SNYDER PERFORMS PREPARED PIANO, ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC, AND SOLO WORKS.

DOORS 7:30PM
TICKETS £12 / £8 CONCS.
Alvin Lucier‘s Music for Piano and Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators is a meditation in vibrations. Time is elastic and one can almost taste the oscillations between the piano strings and the synthetic electronic tones.

Yuji Takahashi‘s protest/memorial piece, Kwanju, May 1980, is a reactionary mixture of courage, tradition, and horror that portrays the massacre in Kwanju.

Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental by Charles Dodge, is a distorted dream of a performance of Enrico Caruso’s performance of “Vesti la giubba” in which (a digitally resynthesised) Caruso desperately searches to find his accompaniment but continually finds himself dislocated from reality and attainment.

Morton Subotnick‘s legendary Liquid Strata is for piano and ghost electronics and is, in the composer’s words, “a romantic, poetic response to the profound scientific insights about fundamental realities of nature as enunciated by Newton.”

Frederick Lesemann‘s prepared piano piece Nataraja, which depicts Shiva who must destroy in order to create changes the entire piano into an orchestra of percussion instruments so that what we hear is the entire spectrum of colours refracted through mirrors in space.