Flat Surfaces
for piano and live electronics

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The title refers to the way the musical material is used in the piece. Instead of a more typical musical transformation the material is presented as a series of static frames featuring individual acoustic events. The sound of the piano is transformed by the computer and distributed to four speakers placed under the instrument and facing outward as well as to the transducer that resonates inside of the piano. This unusual placement of the speakers facilitates the interaction of the instrument with the acoustic space, whose walls have an active role in the movement of the sound and the transducer interferes with the sound of the piano strings. Flat Surfaces was written for Małgorzata Walentynowicz, with special thanks to the KODY Festival in Lublin for making the premiere performance possible in May 2021. .
Krzysztof Wołek

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live video recording

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Live Performance
May 15, 2021, Lublin, Poland
The Center for Culture, Lublin
KODY Festival of Traditional and Avantgarde Music
piano: Małgorzata Walentynowicz
live electronics: Krzysztof Wołek