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Piece for player piano & piano player

Sheet Music: Score

Piece for player piano & piano player / Caroline Wilkins.

by Caroline Wilkins (1990)

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  • Instrumentation: Piano, mechanical player piano and operator/Yamaha disc piano. The mechanical piano part can be performed alternatively on a computer-controlled MIDI Yamaha Disc piano, or on electronic tape.

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    Performance by Piano Circus from the CD Selected works by AMC represented artists


    (this sample is of the keyboard sextet version of this work)

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In this work I will explore the spatial arrangement of 6 keyboards and their players placed in a ring formation, around which the audience can move freely.

The 6 keyboards are grouped in a circle, the players facing each other. Monitor speakers are placed next to each instrument and 4 larger speakers (Genelecs) placed in the four extreme corners of the room to provide surround sound in the arena space around the performers. The audience moves freely around the stage space, seeing and hearing the performance from any vantage point.

An important element in this work is the use of three different kinds of light projection: still lights in the form of spotlights on centre stage / arena, back-projected spotlight(s) through the texture of the hung paper rolls, and moving light on to their front surface in the form of video projection.

In the second example six perforated piano rolls are suspended from the overhead grid and lit from behind so as to illuminate their graphic patterns. At one point towards the end of the performance a video projection of the players - close-up images of hands and keyboards taken from a previous rehearsal - is projected on to the front of the suspended note rolls, (backlight off) the film taking on an abstract, 'grainy' quality due to their texture and the perforations on the surface of the paper.

Published by: Hug & Co. — 1 score (19p. -- A4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced — Co-ordination between live pianist and mechanical piano

Duration: 10 min.

First performance by Sven Thomas Kiebler, Juergen Hocker — Nov 92. Schloss Solitude Stuttgart

Includes performance directions.

The composer notes the following influences on this work:
Georg Antheil, Igor Stravinsky, Conlon Nancarrow

This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.

Related products

This work also exists as the following versions:
- Keyboard music
- Sextets: Keyboards

 

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Analysis & Media

- Video: PPPPP by Caroline Wilkins

- Video: PPPPPP film by Ollala Lemus

- Video: PPPPPP

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