Reverberated Impacts

Reverberated Impacts

Reverberated Impacts

percussionist, piano and Extended Pedal

percussionist, piano and Extended Pedal

Percussionist playing inside an open grand piano with soft mallets and resonating metal objects.

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 field, activating strings, frame and soundboard while the Extended Pedal enables direct control of reverberation away from the keyboard.

A percussionist enters the open piano as an extended resonant field, activating strings, frame and soundboard while the Extended Pedal enables direct control of reverberation away from the keyboard.

A percussionist enters the open piano as an extended resonant field, activating strings, frame and soundboard while the Extended Pedal enables direct control of reverberation away from the keyboard.

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FIRST PERFORMANCE · 2022

Programme Note

Developed within the FRArt research on the Extended Pedal, Reverberated Impacts treats the grand piano as a resonant field rather than a keyboard instrument. The percussionist moves inside and around its body, activating strings, frame, soundboard and structural surfaces.

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.

Score

Score available on request from the composer.

Gallery

Percussionist reaching into an open grand piano to activate its strings and internal resonant surfaces.
Percussionist reaching into an open grand piano to activate its strings and internal resonant surfaces.

Intra-piano percussion and resonant materials

Close-up of hands manipulating the strings and internal mechanism of an open grand piano.
Close-up of hands manipulating the strings and internal mechanism of an open grand piano.

Extended Pedal and piano-interior setup

Low-lit performance view of a percussionist beside an open grand piano, with his shadow projected behind him.
Low-lit performance view of a percussionist beside an open grand piano, with his shadow projected behind him.

Percussionist and grand piano · performance