CDPiano inside out / Zubin Kanga.
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Featured Australian works
Work | Composer | Performers | Duration | |
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...out of obscurity (2011) for extended piano Recorded/performed at: Move Records studios, Melbourne |
Elliott Gyger | Zubin Kanga | 11 mins, 30 sec. |
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Being and time II: Tabula rasa (2012) for piano and dice Recorded/performed at: Move Records studios, Melbourne |
Rosà Lind Page | Zubin Kanga | 8 mins, 45 sec. |
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Entre bajos y alturas (2011) (Between basses and heights) Recorded/performed at: Move Records studios, Melbourne |
Daniel Rojas | Zubin Kanga | 10 mins, 25 sec. |
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Uncanny Valley (2011) Variations and Theme for pianoforte Recorded/performed at: Move Records studios, Melbourne |
Nicholas Vines | Zubin Kanga | 17 mins, 12 sec. |
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Not music yet (2012) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: Move Records studios, Melbourne |
David Young | Zubin Kanga | 7 mins, 22 sec. |
Also includes: Errata / Marcus Whale -- Diabolic machines / Anthony Moles.
Product details
Internationally acclaimed Australian pianist, Zubin Kanga
releases his first CD with Move Records, Piano Inside Out. It
features new innovative solo piano works by Australian composers,
commissioned by Kanga and created in close collaboration with him
over several years.
All the works explore new approaches to the instrument, and many
invent new techniques and push the boundaries of virtuosity using
piano preparation and extended techniques.
Elliott Gyger's …out of obscurity opens with a mercurial
two-part invention, cycling through different pairings of unusual
techniques. Plucking, strumming and muting of strings and
prepared sounds in the bass are mixed in a variety of
combinations. In the second half, the counterpoint breaks apart
and the sonic and expressive potential of each techniques is
explored.
Nicholas Vines' Uncanny Valley is a wild, colourful and
virtuosic work, exploring the differing reactions we have to
different types of almost-human figures: robots, puppets and even
zombies.
Daniels Rojas' Entre Bajos y Alturas ("Between Basses
and Heights") takes the influences of several Latin American
traditions: Tango, Salsa and indigenous Peruvian music and
reinterprets them using a prepared piano, combining rhythmic
complexity with Afro-Cuban grooves in a strikingly original and
virtuosic manner.
David Young's Not Music Yet is composed as watercolour
graphic score that Kanga interprets using all his resources in
and around the piano: playing the black sections using percussive
and muted sounds, the white sections on the keyboard and the blue
sections inside the piano on the strings.
Marcus Whale's Errata explores minimal/mechanistic
textures that expand across the keyboard before reaching a point
of stasis, accompanied by the eerie sounds of e-bows
(electromagnets on the strings).
Rosalind Page's Being and Time II: Tabula Rasa takes
inspiration from the painting Tabula Rasa by Imants Tillers,
translating its multiple layers and influences into a mix of new
sounds inside the piano, Baroque-inspired counterpoint and
intimate, introspective melodies. Like Tillers' painting, Page's
work is an expressive and multilayered exploration of memory,
family, homeland and belonging.
Anthony Moles' Diabolic Machines is a minimalist
toccata, full of mechanistic drive and virtuosic flair that
builds to a massive climax of cascading chords creating a wall of
sound.
The seven new works traverse a wide range of styles across the
whole spectrum of Australian contemporary music. But in their own
unique ways, they all explode preconceptions of what is possible
on the instrument, by turning the piano inside-out.
Duration: 70 min.
Liner booklet includes program notes and biographical information about performer and composers.
Related products
Score: ...out of obscurity : for extended piano / by Elliott Gyger.
Score: Uncanny Valley : Variations and Theme for pianoforte / Nicholas Vines.
Score: Being and time II: Tabula rasa : for solo piano and dice / Rosalind Page.
Score [ePDF]: Being and time II: Tabula rasa : for solo piano and dice [eScore] / Rosalind Page.
CD: Hipster Zombies from Mars : piano music for a post-ironic age / Nicholas Vines, composer ; Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, piano.
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