Expanded Piano

Stavros Gasparatos

Record label
Ad Noiseam
Catalog Number
ADN186CD
Release Date
August 25th 2015
Genres

Tracks

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A1Vincent
A2First Hit
A3Tchaikovsky
A43C
A5Browning
B1Tok
B2The Orphan
B3M
B4Scrape

Recorded live in 2014 at the prestigious EMPAC hall in Troy, NY, the second album on Ad Noiseam by the greek composer Stavros Gasparatos departs from his usual soundtrack-oriented works. A highly conceptual piece, Expanded Piano explores the wide array of sounds which can be produced by this instrument and contextualizes them in the context of modern electronic music. Surrounded by 24 speakers fed by 24 microphones capturing everything happening inside the piano, the audience is placed in the middle of an uncommon yet highly touching sound-scape. Expanded Piano is an encompassing, abstract but emotional album which confirms Stavros Gasparatos's originality and talent.