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Hauschka Moves Beyond the Prepared Piano -
Hauschka (aka Volker Bertelmann), the German Prepared Piano guy who experiments with his instruments more than Pink Floyd or Sonic Youth did back in their respective days, is set to release a new album this fall with the arrival of Foreign Landscapes on October 12 and...
Hauschka release New Video + Free Download -
To welcome the release of Hauschka's new album, 'Snowflakes and Carwrecks' (out today on FatCat), Hauschka and director Jeff Desom have prepared an amazing new video for 'Morgenrot', a standout track off his critically acclaimed LP, Ferndorf. Alongside the video, we are giving away a FREE download of 'Morgenrot' to...
Hauschka - Ferndorf (2008) -
Prepared piano is a piano which has had its sound altered by placing objects (preparations) between or on the strings or on the hammers or dampers (Wikipedia). German experimental musician Volker Bertelman uses this prepared piano technique to create his original and intersting compositions. John Cage coined the term...
Modded Pianos Delight Indie Audiences, Classical Buffs -
Ten-year-old Volker Bertelman couldn't afford a synthesizer, so he modified the family piano to sound like a harpsichord by pressing metal tacks into its hammers. Mom was not amused, but she couldn't have known that her little boy would soon make a living doing more or less the same thing.
Bertelman...
Max Richter -
riginally released in 2002, Max Richter's out-of-print debut, Memoryhouse, gets a long overdue re-release, shedding light on a blank spot in the composer's career. The album is a formative, somewhat derivative experience, one filled with half-formed ideas and moments of exquisite beauty, a clear omen of the better work to...
S. - Sylvain Chauveau is well known by now for his pioneering modern classical compositions but S., his latest EP and first release for the Type label, explores altogether more experimental territory. S. presents itself as a meticulously "designed" release; a repeated alternation of slow-boiling ambient and minimal solo piano-phrase pieces that...
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