Posts tagged extended techniques

Champ pianist Sarah Cahill performing Henry Cowell’s Tiger and Lou Harrison’s Largo Ostinato, from the December 2008 Other Minds “New Music Seance.”

You should really watch the first 3:30 to see Cowell’s Tiger. There are some fiercely awesome whole arm tone-clusters in there. (How’s that for a sales pitch?)

(via Sequenza21)

A promo video for a documentary about avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan. She plays the toy piano as if it were a real piano, and the real piano as if it were a big box of resonant strings. (As they both are.)

Some of the extended techniques shown in this video are so cool—I’ll definitely need to track this down eventually. (and did I mention she worked with John Cage for the last 11 years of his life?)

(inspired via the music of sound)