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PPPPPP : piece for player piano and piano player
by Caroline Wilkins (2009, this version: 1990)
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Piece for player piano & piano player / Caroline Wilkins.
Version: This product features the Duos: 2 pianos version of this work
Library shelf no. 785.6212/WIL 3 [Available for loan]
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Work Overview
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.
Work Details
Year: 2009, this version: 1990
Instrumentation: Player piano or pre-recorded CD (available from publisher), live piano, lighting.
Duration: 9 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Co-ordination with player piano part
First performance: by Sven Thomas Kiebler, Juergen Hocker — 28 Nov 92. Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
The composer notes the following influences on this work:
Georg Antheil, Igor Stravinsky, Conlon Nancarrow
Videos
PPPPP by Caroline WilkinsPPPPP or Piece for Player Piano and Piano Player (1990) was written for a mechanical player piano operated by a piano roll and live piano. This is a video production of the work shortly before its first performance at Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1992. The AMPICO mechanical piano belonged to Juergen Hocker, an exponent of Nancarrow's player piano music. The pianist is Sven-Thomas Kiebler. |
PPPPPP film by Ollala LemusThis is an excerpt from a film created specially for my concert installation 'PPPPPP' (2010). The work involves 6 electric keyboards, suspended piano rolls, choreographed movement and lighting. It is based on an earlier piece, 'PPPPP' for player piano and piano player. The film takes images of multiple keyboards and renders them gradually more abstract. |
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Performances of this work
1 Mar 11: Brunel University. Featuring Piano Circus.
28 Nov 92: Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. Featuring Sven Thomas Kiebler, Juergen Hocker.
Nov 92: Schloss Solitude Stuttgart. Featuring Sven Thomas Kiebler, Juergen Hocker.
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