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| | | erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 003 cd earl howard / denman maroney “fire song” compact disc - fire song (17:48) duet for hyperpiano and synthesizer
- uncaged bacchanal (10:23) solo hyperpiano
- pulse field (13:22) duet for hyperpiano and alto saxophone
- orchid (12:12) solo alto saxophone
| | erstwhile press release... |
| earl howard: alto saxophone, synthesizer
denman maroney: hyperpiano
four long solo and duet pieces totalling 54 minutes from these two nyc-based, criminally underdocumented musicians. howard and maroney have been playing together sporadically since 1975, when they recorded a version of stockhausen's kurzwellen as part of the negative band (a record engineered by carl stone for the finnadar label). howard plays alto saxophone and synth, while maroney plays hyperpiano, which is further explained below. howard has played over the years with such luminaries as derek bailey, han bennink, takehisa kosugi, george lewis, nam june paik, and richard teitelbaum, but has barely recorded, except for a mostly solo electronics cd on random acoustics, pele's tears. fire song contains his first composition for alto to be documented on disc, the solo piece orchid. maroney has pioneered a technique for the piano which he refers to as "hyperpiano", which involves stopping, sliding, bowing, plucking, strumming and striking the strings directly with a variety of tools including bars, bowls, knives, bells and mashers of metal, boxes and bottles of plastic, mallets of various kinds, and blocks of rubber. hyperpiano differs from prepared piano in that the piano is not prepared beforehand. |
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