Morten Qvenild: The HyPer(sonal) piano project

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Contents

 

I: INTRO

memory #1

key questions

instrument setup (as of April 2016):

me (and you)

what could artistic research be (to me)?

methods

hyper(sonal) piano

terrain

 

II: ARTISTIC RESULTS

personal piano

the karman line

duets

memory #2

closing concerts

viva voce

 

III: TRAILS

flow-friction

memory #3

Trails on sounds and sound-layers

tonic – dystonic – complex

soft – loud / idiomatic – non idiomatic dynamics

one layer – many layers

tuned – detuned

memory #4

bright – dark

fine – coarse

rest – motion

close – distant

far from source – close to source

idea – representation

Trails on composition

improvised – pre-conceived

hiding – revealing

pattern – random

comfortable – uneasy

Trails on performance

playing – tweaking – listening

analytic – mindful

memory #5

Trails on instrument construction

safe – insecure

interplay – internal play

weight – function

function – flexibility

software – hardware

acoustic – amplified

other trails

 

IV: POETICS

On artistic core

interagency

ambivalence

techne

On composition and rhythm

baroque

delyrify

denaturalize

instability is human?

song lyric

structure/surface

density

melody

vocals and influences

a regular skin

stutter

many tempos

short loops

memory #6

On performance

risk

restlessness

elasticity

accidents

On sound

sound

sound control

feedback

emulsification

humane/human

On instrument-building

tools

manual labour

memory #7

memories of interagency

interconnections

V: TECHNICAL MANUAL

digital section I, Ableton Live

digital section II, Max

pedal poetry

fx pedal section

other hardware

microphones, processing and amplification

sound distribution

the electroacoustic version

the PA-version

marxuino

lightning mountain

modules and patching

 

VI: OUTRO

satellite projects and recordings

concerts

key reads

key artists and artistic research projects

thank you