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Zellen-Linien


english: cells - lines

for piano and live-electronics
year: 2007
duration: 19:00 min
studio: Klang Projekte Weimar
first performance: June 09, 2007 by Sebastian Berweck , TU Berlin

commissioned by DAAD Berlin


Zellen-Linien uses my research on prepared piano and live-electronics I undertook over the past years. I wanted to create an "electronically prepared" piano and there are no physical preparations in the instrument. Since 1999 I experimented with real-time analysis of sounds and with possibilities to control the live-electronics through the gesture of the player. A first result was the composition "Das Bleierne Klavier". Many performances of that piece enriched my experience and led finally to this new work.


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Performance with Xenia Pestova
May 16, 2008, McGill University Montréal

 

Performance with Sebastian Berweck
November 25, 2011, piano+ Festival ZKM Karlsruhe

 

Performance with Frank Gutschmidt
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score:

To obtain a printed copy and/or a download link to the score, follow this link to BabelScores

downloads:

The electronic part is realized as an Max/MSP patch for Max 7, 64 bit

download electronics for Mac – (version august 2019)

technical requirements:

2 microphones (Neumann 184)
8-channel loudspeaker system, sourrounding the public
1 stage monitor
laptop MacBook Pro
soundcard RME Hammerfall + HDSPe Express card
MIDI-sustain pedal
converter sustain-to-MIDI

Zellen-Linien-technik-8ch

The signal of both microphones will be used to amplify the piano through speakers 1 and 2. Both microphones are send through Aux 1 and 2 to my sound-card Hammerfall Multiface (symmetrical TRS-connectors).
The 8-channel output of the sound-card (8 symmetrical TRS) will be fed to the console for redistribution over the 8 loudspeakers.

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