Izumi Kimura - Prepared Piano

About this event

IZUMI KIMURA - Prepared Piano

John Cage, (Selections from) Sonatas & Interludes

Elis Czerniak, New Commission (prepared piano and live electronics)

Francis Heery, New Commission (prepared piano and live electronics)

Performers

Izumi Kimura, piano

Elis Czerniak, computer

Francis Heery, computer

Alexis Nealon, sound projection

One of Ireland's most inventive improvisers – Izumi Kimura – joins forces with two of the country's most imaginative composers (Francis Heery and Elis Czerniak) to reinvent the 'prepared piano' and extend its possibilities with live electronics through two new works specially commissioned for Music Current Festival. The new works are contextualised with John Cage's seminal Sonatas and Interludes, one of the best known works from the 'inventor' of the prepared piano. These new works follow Cage's original preparations to fix screws, bolts and rubbers inserted between the strings.

This programme is supported by Jeffers Pianos, in association with Galway Jazz Festival and Music Network.

More details and events at: http://www.musiccurrent.ie/