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Tableaux Vivant

by Andrea Taeggi/5HT2/Gondwana

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Tableaux Vivant 36:56
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"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. "
~~~

A short clip from the recording session can be viewed here:
www.instagram.com/p/CdvMVfLAazO/

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released July 21, 2023

The piano gut was kindly made available by EMS Stockholm (elektronmusikstudion.se)

Big thanks goes to photographer Daphné Lejeune for the poignant cover art and for being part of this project (lejeunedaphne.com)

All music semi-improvised, recorded, mixed & mastered by Andrea Taeggi between Stockholm and Berlin

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Andrea Taeggi aka 5HT2 aka Gondwana is an Italian musician residing in Berlin. He has released on Mille Plateaux, Opal Tapes,Type,SM-LL, Präsens Editionen, OOH-Sounds and Syncopathic. He's also known for his work with Lumisokea. ... more

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