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Manuel Pess​ô​a de Lima: "From Memory"

from Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving by Kukuruz Quartet

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sound collage

I wrote each pianist a letter to be opened and read during the recording session. In the letter, I ask them to play or even practice some excerpts of pieces that were somehow emblematic of their formative years with the piano. This becomes the source material for a collage piece, where I process these fragments, creating multiple sonic layers of this collection of memories, intertwining the processed sounds with the unaltered recordings. Among improvised material, snippets of the following pieces appear: Study for Mixed Accents (Ruth Crawford), Prelude (Julia Perry), Sonata KV540 (Mozart), Guernica (Paul Dessau), Visions Fugitives (Prokofief), Chanson Pour L' auvegnat (Georges Brassens) and Pour Le Piano (Debussy). The collage wanders through hesitating gestures, in the pianist's attempt to recall the muscle memory of pieces they once learned. In this sense, the poetics of memory appears as what it forgets, and in its directionlessness, inaugurates another, actualized, memory.

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from Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving, released February 3, 2023

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Simone Keller, a classical pianist by training but with a transversal and interdisciplinary outlook. As an artist and performer, she feels at home in contemporary music, musical theatre, improvisation, and in experimental and participatory formats.

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