Nine Found Poems in the Shape of a Piano, by John Bennett and John Laidler

Nine Found Poems in the Shape of a Piano

by John Bennett and John Laidler

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1.	Ravel 05:53		buy track
2.	Scelsi 06:11	info	buy track
3.	Anon 03:11		buy track
4.	Satie 10:24	info	buy track
5.	Gould 07:09		buy track
6.	Cage 06:04		buy track
7.	Tuner 02:23		buy track
8.	Terezin 10:27		buy track
9.	Bolleter 02:38		buy track

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This CD tests an omnivorous set of pianists and composers for the piano, from fakes to mystics with biographies, extraordinary environments, fables and reconstituted sounds.

Here you will find sad stories of Ravel’s brain, the concentration camp Terezin, two mad pianists, a very eccentric pianist, Glenn Gould, and a very eccentric composer for the piano, Eric Satie. The musical mashups account for the physicality of this percussive instrument, as well as its magical grace and mystery, its poetry and its prose.
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Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.
Satie

From imagination to data processing, from the arts to the particulars of information technology and physiology - that is the historic shift of 1900.
Friedrich Kittler

Painting long ago discovered perspective... Yet music has not succeeded in going beyond two dimensions.
Count Giacinto Scelsi

The audience were mostly old people - very ill people and unhappy people - but they came to our concerts and this was their food.
Alice Herz-Sommer

There's a lot of piano playing going on there and I mean that as the most disparaging comment possible.
Glenn Gould

The man has since written music, which has been verified as genuine. It is extraordinary. The first time we took him down to the piano he played for several hours, non-stop.
Mr Camp

As I played ants came out and journeyed in concentric circles on the front panel of the 1920s Jackson Piano.
Ross Bolleter