A Different Piano, a Different Noise

Likeyesterday ’s Downstream entry , today ’s is of forte-piano subsume in noise . Yesterday ’s stochasticity has an industrial static to it . It is a thick timber of noise through which the piano occasionally becomes apparent . What makes yesterday ’s piece , “ Week Twenty Nine Project ” by Madeleine Cocolas , work as a theme is how the melody ’s obtuse development is at creative odds with that interference — the notes do n’t just fall out each other , but they in accession have to make sense of the drone through which the emanate .

Today ’s piece , “ Early Morning With Piano Cityscape ” by Victoria Fenner , is a retroactive physical composition — which is to say , it is orbit recording that , through selection and framing , can be find out as a composing . What it contain is the everyday sounds of the metropolis , two and half mo of them , a single belt of a day record , press out , and salvage for descendants . There is variety to the sound in Fenner ’s transcription : birdsong , traffic , a worldwide municipal whir , aircraft , household natural action , and a piano . The pianissimo is just one audio among the many , but because its musicality is explicit it stands out , no matter how aloud the other noises , such as the encroaching bus — or so it appears — that arrives toward the end , might get .

Track originally posted for free download atsoundcloud.com/victoriafenner . More from Fenner , who is based in Hamilton , Ontario , Canada , atmagneticspirits.comandtwitter.com/VictoriaFenner .

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