Keynote +
The unique multi-keyboard project Keynote + (Kate Ryder: prepared piano and Jane Chapman: harpsichord) explores the interface between early and modern instruments and cutting edge new music, combining the sound world and subtle sonorities of prepared piano, harpsichord, clavichord, and miniature instruments with visual imagery and sound installations. They have performed at festivals and concert series in the UK, Sweden and the USA, giving lectures and workshops at leading institutions and collaborating extensively with many composers.
Commissions include:
Cindy Cox Playing A Round (Albany Records)
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Yumi Hara Cawkwell Luminous
Simon Emmerson Dreamscape
Evelyn Ficarra Rendition (installation by Ion Winters)
Jeremy Peyton Jones Sounding Boxes
Stephen Montague One Imperial Thunderbolt (plus CD track)
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As Creativeworks Entrepreneur in Residence and Musician in Residence at Kingston University in 2014/15, supported by the music department and Dr Tim Ewers, Kate’s performance practice is creating an historical repositioning of the piano, by exploring new technologies and extended techniques to develop a type of “superpiano”. Using various midi interfaces such as the pnoscan™ with a range of applications including SuperCollider and Max MSP, Kate is developing a new repertoire in collaboration with composers Cindy Cox, Tim Ewers, Stace Constantinou, Roger Redgate, Oded Ben Tal, and Yumi Hara.
Kate Ryder: Prepared Piano/Sampler
Nguyen Thanh Thuy : Dan Tranh (Vietnamese Zither)
A unique collaboration with Sweden based Dan Tranh player Nguyen Thanh Thuy, TJK combines several cultures and genres through improvisation, studio and acoustic composition. With inherent Asian/Western cultural links between the Vietnamese Dan Tranh and the Prepared Piano, their practice focuses on shared techniques such as pitch bending, detuning, vibration/pulsing and the preparation of strings of both instruments with found objects. The result is in an extraordinarily complex sound world and visual experience, independent from the individual cultures they allude to. Current collaborations with sonic artist Jakob Riis and composer Kent Olofsson, are further developing their music by incorporating mixed media, sampled sounds and multi layering via live electronic manipulations.
New comprovisation for DanTranh and Prepared Piano by Roger Redgate
The Magnetic Resonator Piano
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RCM seminar series.Music and Ideas: Developing Repertoire for New Instruments.
Wednesday 8th November 6 - 10 pm
Queen Mary University
London E1 4NS
Arts and Culture Launch
Works for Magnetic Resonator Piano by Andrew MacPherson and others.
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