Feed the Monster

Feed the Monster

Feed the Monster

spatialised ensemble of five instruments

spatialised ensemble of five instruments

Photo: Thomas Pucaro

Year

2024

Duration

24 min

Category

Ensemble

Features

Electronics

Augmented

Spatialised

Five spatialised performers feed sound into an augmented piano that absorbs, filters and reprojects it, becoming a reactive collective instrument shaped by resonance and feedback.

Five spatialised performers feed sound into an augmented piano that absorbs, filters and reprojects it, becoming a reactive collective instrument shaped by resonance and feedback.

Five spatialised performers feed sound into an augmented piano that absorbs, filters and reprojects it, becoming a reactive collective instrument shaped by resonance and feedback.

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Feed the Monster — recording

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Feed the Monster — primary performance

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Programme Note

Feed the Monster reimagines the piano as a living organism: a resonant body capable of absorbing, transforming and redistributing sound. Five spatialised musicians project amplified material toward the instrument, while the pianist controls an active vibration system that continually modifies the piano’s responsiveness.

Vibration speakers transmit sound into the soundboard, strings and wooden body. The piano becomes resonating chamber, acoustic filter and transformative membrane; sympathetic resonance, internal vibration and feedback range from raw instability to fragile harmonic complexity. Performer movement and the trajectories of projected sound make the architecture of the concert space part of the composition.

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