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Hour One of Twenty Four

I recently recorded the first hour of the 24 hour piece for Disklavier – this is another piece using magic squares as a structural determinant – in the case of this piece I use four voices making four, eight unit transects, over the duration of approximately one hour (magic sums occurring about every fifteen minutes). I will make a continuous recording of the twenty four hour piece in the coming months as soon as i convince  Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios to  reinterpret the piano as a computer thus  allowing me it to run continuously overnight.

The above image is a single frame of the  video score generated by my script and shows one of the sixty four units of the composition framework used in the first hour.

The composition was made using the python scripting language outputting to both midi (interpreted by the disklavier) and to notation  using the Lilypond notation package solely for the purpose of analysis and troubleshooting on my part.

You can listen to or download the file from here:

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new work for solo or multiple pianos

excerpt from the score Piano Squared Rob Canning 2009

My latest piece for solo or multiple pianos Piano Squared (working title) is very nearly finished so I have made a page for it. There is still a little work to be done on it but i am putting the current state of drafts online for feedback from potential performers. The piece can be performed by a soloist or by multiple piano players with or without tape and/or live electronics. The duration is variable as are many other elements of the work. The suggested duration range is between 15 minutes and <1 hour  It is part of the same series of magic square works as melencolia for string quartet which was recently giving its Finnish Premiere by the contempo string quaret. One potential goal at the moment is to collect as many different realisations from as many performs as i can and then to produce a CD/DVD of the results. For full details and to examine the documentation as it stands click this link