Resurrections

for violin and piaNOT, or for piaNOT solo; Michiko Theurer, violin
2020, 5th/2nd order Ambisonics
[►] video with binaural audio

The "Weathered Piano", or piaNOT, is the ghost of an upright piano that was saved from transcending acoustic life in a landfill, and spent a year converted into comfortable housing for small creatures, while being re-tuned by rain and sun. It has been the source of sounds and resonances for four pieces so far, and tonight it confronts a live audience for the first time. Tonight's performance of Resurrections is a creative collaboration between Michiko Theurer and Fernando Lopez-Lezcano. The binding that holds the piece together is the SooperLoopy program (still in the process of being written by Fernando in SuperCollider). SooperLoopy can record and play back multiple loops, add spectral and other processing to the recordings, and spatialize the resulting sound streams in full 3D surround. Michiko (violin) and Fernando (piaNOT) trade places as performers of their respective (or borrowed) instruments, and as creative hunters of the sounds being performed by the other while at the helm of the control surface that interfaces with SooperLoopy. Sonic mayhem ensues...

Performances

• CCRMA at Bing | The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing, Bing Studio, Stanford, January 31st 2020 (violin and piaNOT)
• CCRMA at Bing | The Lord of the Bings: The Return of the Bing, Bing Studio, Stanford, February 1st 2020 (lonely piaNOT)

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano

Composer, performer, lecturer and computer systems administrator at CCRMA, Stanford University

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Of Dinosaurs and Other Creatures
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The Love Songs of Flying Dinosaurs
El PianoSaurio
Dinosaur He[a]rd!
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Resurrections
Pia[NOT] Etude
The Miraculous Multiplication of Strings
Y Sonó Como Arpa Vieja
Un Esqueleto en la Cocina
The Hidden and Mysterious Machinery of Sound
Modulate me, please?
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Toast and Jam
Divertimento de Cocina
Velvet Skin, Heart of Steel
Fugue 1 (Fanfare)
Jurassic Modulations
Earth Songs
Dinosaur Skin
A Very Fractal Cat, Somewhat T[h]rilled
65 Second Bycicle
The Dinosaur At War
Exit Variations
El Dinosaurio Habla
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Instant Knoll
iICEsCcRrEeAaMm
House of Mirrors
With Room to Grow
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Hot'n Cold
Quest