Multitudes / / / From Strings to Dinosaurs
2015
Installation for Player Piano and Bioluminescent Algae
By Andreas Greiner
Music By Tyler Friedman
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In a pitch black room, transparent canisters filled with seawater and mono-cellular algae (Pyrocystis fusiformis) are placed on the strings of a self playing piano. As each note is hammered, the algae shimmers, illuminating to the vibration of the strings. Over thirteen minutes the composition grows its complexity and intensity according to an exponential logic until the piano can no longer mechanically produce the density of the music.
Multitudes is the winner of the 2015 Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus. Among other venues, it has been presented as part of the Gaudeaumus festival at the Museum Speelklok in Utrecht, Roppongi Art Night in Tokyo and the Cycle Music and Arts Festival in Reykjavik..
Commissioned by Import Projects, Berlin.
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