LPH 096 - Music for Prepared Piano (1962-2012)

[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2017; #096]


tracklist:

(1962) Bob James Trio - Trilogy
(1971) Alan Davie + Frank Perry - Suite for Prepared Piano + Minidrums - Part 3
(1976) Peter Michael Hamel - Silence
(1977) François Tusques - La Tierce est-elle bien tempérée?
(1983) Yolanda Liepa - Klish Klash (Schubel)
(1985) Margaret Leng Tan - Primitive (Cage)
(1997) John Wolf Brennan - Russian Doors
(1997) Sylvie Courvoisier + Mark Nauseef - Valsette
(2002) Howard Riley, John Tilbury, Keith Tippett - Jump Up
(2003) Anthony Pateras + Sean Baxter, David Brown - Ataxia
(2008) Albert van Veenendaal - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Mingus)
(2010) Alexander von Schlippenbach + Daniele D'Agaro, Han Bennink - Impro #19
(2010) Christian Wallumrød + Dans les arbres - La Vapeur
(2012) Erik Griswold + Scott Walton, Nathan Hubbard - Susan's Stretto

total time: 79'07


Prepared by Lucky.
Inspired by Harry Lachner's radio program on WDR 3.

The cover photograph shows the inside of a piano after Cage had placed objects between its strings - taken from the website of the New York Public Library.

See also LPH 027 - Ferrante and Teicher - Prepared Pianos (1953-60).

"The invention of the "prepared piano", per se, is usually traced to John Cage. Cage first prepared a piano when he was commissioned to write music for "Bacchanale", a dance by Syvilla Fort in 1938. For some time previously, Cage had been writing exclusively for a percussion ensemble, but the hall where Fort’s dance was to be staged had no room for a percussion group. The only instrument available was a single grand piano. After some consideration, Cage said that he realized it was possible “to place in the hands of a single pianist the equivalent of an entire percussion orchestra ... With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard”."

(Wikipedia)