Peter Ablinger's "Voices and Piano" series, featured on this album, creates individual "acoustic masks" for personalities by combining their original voices with electronic transformation of their name's sound, language-derived rhythm, and piano harmonies.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album explores how music addresses people, focusing on "speaking" works that contain messages, refer to poems, incorporate language, or tell stories.
Performer Biography
Florence Millet, the pianist on this album, is a professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and has been the managing director of HfMT/Wuppertal since 2021.
Recording & Production
This album is a production of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR), licensed by WDR mediagroup GmbH, with recordings made in 2021 and 2022 at the Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal.
Composer Biography
Leoš Janáček's "Intimate Sketches" are described as his life diary, with motifs sometimes sounding like the speech-melodies he noted down from everyday life.
Interpretation
For Georges Aperghis's "Conversation X," pianist Florence Millet uses kitchen utensils, screws, a can opener, and a decorative crystal object to prepare the piano, creating an intentionally "ugly" sound.
Album & Artwork
The album title, "KEYWORDS," is a two-part concept album that uses the English word 'key' ambiguously, referring to both a piano key and a key (as in a solution or explanation).
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