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Piano Apocalypse (2022)

Eka Chabashvili, Nino Jvania, Tamar Zhvania
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"Piano music has come to an end and something quite different is coming. I sense it clearly: with the claviers made up to this time, there is nothing new to discover any more," declared Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1992. Truly, the piano, a brainchild of its era, has gradually been alienated by our epoch. Contemporary composers engage themselves less and less with the piano – particularly as a solo instrument. Though, we have to consider that a musical instrument is a musical chronicler with the structure, tuning system and performance techniques reflecting to certain extent the epochs it was created and employed in. Consequently, the main principles of music representative of every epoch lead to transformation of the instrument, its renewal, refinement, enrichment of performance techniques. Each epoch adapts the instrument to the principles of the corresponding musical thinking in order to make it capable of producing contemporary sound. Using our artistic imagination, we compare this situation to the Apocalypse, trying to find some ways of dealing with it. In this exposition we present some results of our experiments with the piano and its sound conducted within the artistic project "Has Piano Music Come to an End?". Methodology we employ is comparative and experimental. Analysis of piano music repertoire, its compositional and performance techniques and instrument's structure in various epochs led us to the reconsideration of the piano and inspired us to offer to you some new experimental options of its employment and modification, the latter resulting in a new instrument “ModEkAl”. Of course, no artistic research about music and a musical instrument could be conducted without making the research and its results public. Publicity is an inherent part of music which has to be performed and perceived in order to fully fulfill its purpose.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsinstrument design, extended piano techniques, modified piano, piano chamber orchestra, virtual piano orchestra
date26/05/2021
published29/09/2022
last modified29/09/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationTbilisi V.Sarajishvili State Conservatoire
copyrightShota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, TSC, Eka Chabashvili, Nino Jvania, Tamar Zhvania
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1278920/1279213
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1278920
published inResearch Catalogue


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