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New Music for Multiple Keyboards

CD

New Music for Multiple Keyboards : piano, toy piano, harpsichord, MIDI piano / works by Diana Blom, Michael Hannan, Andrián Pertout, Paul Smith and Felicity Martin.

  • Published by Wirripang — 2018 [Wirr089] — 2 CDs (135 min.)
  • Sales Availability: This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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  • Library Availability: CD 2943 — Available for loan

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Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
After the rain (2010) for four pianos
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Diana Blom Diana Blom, Paul Smith, Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes 8 mins, 43 sec.
Braided river (2017) for electronics Diana Blom 15 mins, 3 sec.
Calder's surprise (2015) — duos: 2 toy pianos — Take 1
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Diana Blom Diana Blom, Michael Hannan 2 mins, 17 sec.
Calder's surprise (2015) — duos: 2 toy pianos — Take 2
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Diana Blom Diana Blom, Michael Hannan 2 mins, 17 sec.
Drawing firewheels (2016) for piano and toy piano (one player)
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Diana Blom Antonietta Loffredo 6 mins, 47 sec.
Freefall (2016) for two pianos
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Diana Blom Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo 4 mins, 4 sec.
The Green man dances (2006) piano duet
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Diana Blom Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes 2 mins, 24 sec.
River circles (1997) for electroacoustic — Shorter version
Diana Blom 10 mins, 55 sec.
Two Chinese folk songs (1988) for piano duet — Fisherman's Joy
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Diana Blom Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes 2 mins, 30 sec.
Two Chinese folk songs (1988) for piano duet — Little Cabbage
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Diana Blom Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes 2 mins, 53 sec.
Cloudcatcher I (2016) for two pianos
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Michael Hannan Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo 13 mins, 40 sec.
Impromobile (2016) piano for four hands — Take 1
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Michael Hannan Michael Hannan, Diana Blom 3 mins, 30 sec.
Impromobile (2016) piano for four hands — Take 2
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Michael Hannan Michael Hannan, Diana Blom 15 mins, 3 sec.
Landscape/soundscape I (2017) — duos: 2 pianos Michael Hannan Michael Hannan, Diana Blom 11 mins, 25 sec.
Landscape/soundscape II (2017) — site specific live performance Michael Hannan 12 mins, 24 sec.
Riff madness III (2016) for two toy grand pianos
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Michael Hannan Michael Hannan, Antonietta Loffredo 6 mins, 24 sec.
Musica battuta (2016) double toy piano étude for one soloist
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Andrián Pertout Antonietta Loffredo 6 mins, 14 sec.
Clutter (2016) for two pianos
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Paul Smith Viney-Grinberg Piano Duo 7 mins, 9 sec.
Holding Masks (2016) — duos: 2 pianos
Recorded/performed at: Western Sydney University
Paul Smith Paul Smith, Antonietta Loffredo 8 mins, 4 sec.

Also includes: Sunshower / Felicity Martin.

Product details

Diana Blom and Michael Hannan, the curators and producers of this double CD of new music for multiple keyboards, were students together at the Department of Music of the University of Sydney in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Both were also studying harpsichord with Dorothy White in this period.
When she was on the staff of ABC music in the mid-1970s, Diana Blom produced recordings of Michael Hannan playing Peter Sculthorpe's Koto Musics and Landscape, works that involve multitracking of extended technique piano parts. These recordings were subsequently released on a Move Records LP and later re-released on several Move Records CDs. In 2006 Diana and Michael presented concerts of a dozen or so of their solo piano works in both Sydney where Diana lives, and in Nimbin where Michael lives. The concerts included performances by them of Diana's The Green Man Dances for piano duet. This piece was included on the Multiple Keyboards project but played, on this occasion, by Jennifer MacRitchie and Pablo Puentes.
Since that piano performance project, Michael and Diana have collaborated on several composition repertoire-creation projects, notably the Shadows and Silhouettes performance at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2010. This project, initially involving Australian composers writing piano pieces influenced by Chinese culture, was eventually taken up by Italian pianist, Antonietta Loffredo, resulting in the Shadows and Silhouettes CD (Wirripang, Wirr 047, 2012) which includes Chinese culture-inspired works from Australia, Italy, Singapore and Malaysia.
The idea of the "Multiple Keyboards" project sprang from these earlier experiences. In discussion, Diana and Michael felt they would like to create an album of new works that fitted the general principle of two or more keyboardists playing on one or more keyboard instruments. The instrumentation is dominated by pianos and toy pianos (and combinations thereof), but there is one work for multi-tracked harpsichords and another for multi-tracked MIDI electric pianos.

Duration: 135 min.

Liner notes include program notes and biographical notes abut the composers and performers.


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