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Se​á​n Ó D​á​laigh: "Ruainne III"

from Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving by Kukuruz Quartet

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The Irish word ruainne translates as ‘fragments’ or ‘threads’. This work is part of a series.

Each one is a transcription of the same piano recording which has been living on my hard drive for 5 years as drone.wav.

It is a recording of an improvisation on a piano using a cello bow. The bow is wrapped around the lowest A and C strings and the sostenuto pedal is kept pressed down always. The improvisation varied bow pressure and speed with lots of space to listen to the shimmering and visceral resonance of the metallic strings.

The electronic transcription process fragments this recording. It is an attempted representation of the very complex sonic texture. You are left with tens of thousands of transcribed notes as MIDI data. The act of re-composing this transcription into something legible for a new context (4 pianos and tape for example) is, on the surface, an attempt to deal with the 1000’s of possibilities the material presents. But it is also to deal with the issue of fragmentation in general, foregrounding the issue of choice in the face of the fragmented realities we are living in.

This idea was informed by a close friend, a writer and composer, Emile Frankel. In his book Hearing the Cloud Frankel argues for responsible choice as radical resistance to the potential for apathy in fragmented dystopian aesthetics.

The piece is dedicated to Sophie Fetokaki for showing me how to take instruments apart with care.

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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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