Playing with Fire

Acoustic piano and CD Soundbed. c.6'07

A collaboration with composer, Brendan Smyly, Playing with Fire explores the sounds of live acoustic piano and distorted piano. The two sound sources borrow and share pitch fields and texture blocks. At times the live piano is foregrounded and at other times the CD soundbed engulfs the piano sound. It captures the immediacy of the improvised gestures, drawn into a sonic narrative that highlights the piano’s ability to adapt to a sound space usually occupied by more contemporary instruments.

Playing with Fire has been recorded by Tamara Anna Cislowska and is available online Wirr 095. *

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• Playing with Fire - sheet music
•  audio *

ISMN9790720226897
For instant download: Score $20.00  
Soundbed .wav 61.3 MB $1.00