{"id":356,"date":"2009-06-10T06:17:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T06:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/2009\/06\/molecular_piano\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T17:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T22:40:19","slug":"molecular_piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2009\/06\/molecular_piano.html","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before, I have spoken of “extreme” piano, related to the phenomenon of “extreme sports” — I was talking about the masochistic marathon of Alvin Curran’s Hope Street Tunnel Blues III<\/em><\/a>. Now, I want to propose the notion of “molecular piano.” I’m thinking of “molecular gastronomy” as practiced by Ferran Adri\u00e0<\/a> and many others (focusing on ambiguities and subtle transformations — from one state of edible matter to another). And, I am thinking too of the study of “microsound.”<\/a> The origins of “molecular” piano music (“granular” piano music?) surely date to the 1970s: Curtis Curtis-Smith<\/a>‘s Rhapsodies for bowed piano, William Duckworth’s Time Curve Preludes<\/em>, \"keyboardAJ.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>and probably George Crumb’s Makrokosmos<\/em>. Sure, there’s line, and harmony, but you can listen, or perform, “sonically” just as well, one microscopic moment of sound morphing to the next — the raw to the cooked<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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