Tableaux Vivant by Andrea Taeggi/5HT2/Gondwana

⚡ you can also buy it directly on my website: https://tinyurl.com/3muvhsxs ⚡

"Tableau vivant" is a suite recorded on a piano gut, plucked with fingers and nails.

I tuned each string to a Just Intonation scale (inspired by La Monte Young and Kyle Gann) which capitalizes on the beauty of some groups of pure/just intervals and magnifies peculiar vibratory phenomena caused by the friction of extremely close frequencies, all across the spectrum.

It is a contemplative piece, largely inspired by artistic genres that favor stillness and stationary scenes (eg landscape painting).

I took the recordings in an acoustically treated room at EMS Stockholm with an array of seven different microphones and top-of-the-line studio rig.

In "Tableaux Vivant" I used an "interval improvisation" approach, which allowed for more spontaneity, while maintaining the focus on particular sets of harmonies in every segment of the narration.

I devised little critter-like virtual sonic motors, that function as accompanying background elements throughout the piece. They are made of the same material as the unshrouded harp and they share the same habitat.

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"And then black night. That blackness was sublime.
I felt distributed through space and time:
One foot upon a mountaintop, one hand
Under the pebbles of a panting strand,
One ear in Italy, one eye in Spain
In caves, my blood, and in the stars, my brain. "
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A short clip from the recording session can be viewed here:
www.instagram.com/p/CdvMVfLAazO/

**you can also buy my music directly on my website: https://andreataeggi.com/buymusic/

Andrea Taeggi aka 5HT2 aka Gondwana is an Italian musician residing in Berlin. He has released on Mille Plateaux, Hands in The Dark, Opal Tapes,Type,SM-LL, Präsens Editionen, OOH-Sounds and Syncopathic.

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