10.4225/03/59f736cfd58c8
Cat Hope
Cat
Hope
Stuart James
Stuart
James
Kaps Freed
Monash University
2019
animated notation
australian music
piano music
piano and electronics
graphic notation
Music Composition
2019-09-09 00:43:01
Dataset
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/dataset/Kapps_Freed/5550103
<div><sub>Music composition for piano and electronics.</sub></div><div>Composed 2017.</div><div><sub>You can use the MaxPatch provided (created by Stuart James) or create your own software to realise the score.</sub></div><div><sub><br></sub></div><div><sub>You need the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/decibel-scoreplayer/id622591851?mt=8" target="_blank">Decibel ScorePlayer</a> and the associated score file to perform this work.<br></sub></div><div><sub><br></sub></div><div><sub>Commissioned by Gabriella Smart. <br></sub></div><div><sub><br></sub></div><div><sub><b><i>PROGRAM NOTE</i></b></sub></div><div><sub>This composition aims to bring the sound of the piano
as close as possible to the sound of Percy Grainger’s <em><a href="http://www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/articles/FreeMusic.html" target="_blank">Free Music</a></em> ideals,
by applying pitch tracking and spectral filtering. Delicate, sparse piano
pitches are sampled and transported into theremin like tones where the tempered
scale becomes irrelevant. The 'Kaps piano' is
the childhood piano of Percy Grainger, and resides in the Grainger Museum in
Melbourne. It was made in Dresden, Germany in 1887. Grainger practiced on this
piano daily as a child, presided over by his teacher and mother, Rose Grainger.
Hope has long been fascinated with Grainger's <em>Free Music</em>, having <a href="http://www.decibelnewmusic.com/graingers-free-music.html" target="_blank">realised performances of the theremin
works</a>. Kaps Freed imagines a link between his
childhood piano practice routine and his later investigations into<em> Free
Music - </em> a music characterised by the
emancipation of rhythmic processes and pitch, both explored in this, and most
of Hope's work. The piano notation is inspired by Albert Lake in Melbourne, the
same lake that is said to have been the inspiration for Grainger's theory
of <em>Free
Music.</em></sub></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><b><sub>PERFORMANCES</sub></b><br></i><div><sub> <a href="https://www.monash.edu/mlive/whats-on/events/gabriella-smart/" target="_blank">MLive,</a>Robert Blackwood
Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, April 2018.<br>
<a href="https://www.tura.com.au/tura-program/broken-trees-elephant-ivories/" target="_blank">Of Broken Trees and Elephants
Ivories</a>, Callaway Auditorium, Perth, June 29 2018 and Beaumont
House Composers Residency, July 15 2018.<br>Bratislava Music Academy, October 2018<br>KuBa Saarbruecken, South Germany, October, 2018.</sub></div><div><sub><a href="http://loftkoeln.de/" target="_blank">LOFT</a>, Cologne ,
October 2018 </sub></div><div><sub>Montford University and Bournemouth University,
UK, December 2018 </sub> <br></div></div><div><sub><br></sub></div><div><b><i>RECORDING</i></b></div><div><sub>Kaps Freed is featured on "Works For Travelled Pianos", performed by Gabriella Smart. Released in 2019 on ezz-thetics1012</sub></div>