About | Klavierstück III

Program note

To call this work a „Klavierstück” is both to recognize the piano as a vessel which may contain numerous fingerprints and references, and to question its parameters as a percussion instrument. In Partch’s Mazda Marimba there is already the idea of extended sounds being somehow embraced within a ‘Persian’-inspired percussion context. Here, the remapping and reimagining of manual gestures from the tombak change the physicality of ‘playing piano’, allowing for a new sonic world to emerge. Klavierstück III was commissioned by pianist Maryam Mehraban in the framework of her project „Piano at the Center of Cultural Exchange”. 

Year of Composition

2023

Commission

Maryam Mehraban
im Rahmen des Projekts „Klavier im Mittelpunkt des kulturellen Austausches“

First Performance

SONIC MATTER Festival, Zürich
November 27, 2023