Reverberated Impacts

Reverberated Impacts

Reverberated Impacts

piano played by a percussionist and Extended Pedal

piano played by a percussionist and Extended Pedal

Photo: David Giacomelli and Mattia Di Falco

Year

2022

Duration

20 min

Category

Solo

Features

Augmented

Extended Pedal

A percussionist enters the open piano as an extended resonant landscape, activating strings, frame and soundboard while the Extended Pedal controls reverberation away from the keyboard.

A percussionist enters the open piano as an extended resonant landscape, activating strings, frame and soundboard while the Extended Pedal controls reverberation away from the keyboard.

A percussionist enters the open piano as an extended resonant landscape, activating strings, frame and soundboard while the Extended Pedal controls reverberation away from the keyboard.

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Reverberated Impacts — recording

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Reverberated Impacts — primary performance

Programme Note

Reverberated Impacts was developed within the FRArt project devoted to the Extended Pedal. A percussionist approaches the grand piano from inside and around its body, activating strings, frame, soundboard and structural surfaces rather than remaining at the keyboard.

The removable pedal extension preserves direct control of the dampers while the performer moves around the instrument. Percussive impact and resonant decay therefore become a single compositional action: the piano is heard as a multidirectional landscape whose materials, gestures and reverberation can be shaped in real time.