Unburying, from Liminals, Emerging: into the microtonal prepared piano by matt A choboter

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My research stems from the curiosity of moving beyond the fixed pitches of western tuning and into a sound continuum of extended sound possibilities. I ask questions like: can an acoustic grand piano be completely sonically-reimagined? why should western ears continue to be so accustomed to only one tuning system? In contrast, can “pure sounds” meet ethnically diverse microtonal tuning constellations? Can a newly invented tuning system dialogue with magnetic preparations to evoke timbral effects from Balinese Gamelan or Indian classical music? Collectively, how can this new instrument merge with spatialization and electronics to create embodied experiences for audiences? And how can all these elements be harnessed within a liminal psychological narrative?
matt A choboter - Unburying, from Liminals, Emerging: into the microtonal prepared piano - 2024
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liminality individuation

psychological

composition improvisation

cultural diversity

post-colonialism Why Question

Equal Temperament? Embodying

confronting a mechanistic

Unburying, from Liminals, Emerging

into the microtonal prepared piano

Microtonal Prepared Piano

tuning preparations

Just intonation Balinese pentatonic tampura evoked magnets

"ombak" (beatings) multi-phonics

modular objects

max patch pedal drones as speakers

Magnetic pickup rig transducers

Spatialisation

tunnelfabrikken St. Augustines church

through sound objects

journal, dream diary

reverse abstraction immersion into liminality

visual communication premeditated vs.

spontaneous composition

Carsten Holmlund Domenico Villani

piano tuner programmer

Collaborations

Simon Mariegaard Francesco Bigoni

Producer engineer