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Tomorrow I will turn 30, and for it, I had decided to release a very special project, which has been developed in the last 4 years, working back and forth with Sylvain Levier.
I tune pianos when the chances come, and always thought that each piano has its own voice; long ago I stopped playing the same things on different pianos and started playing what the piano was inspiring me. This time, each piece corresponds to a tuning-test improvisation at a particular piano that is freshly tuned by myself. The respective recording is then sent to Sylvain Levier, who had developed his own way to represent audio into lines and textures. When he feels the visual to be done, the drawing is then scanned and carefully printed.
We will start releasing 4 of the pieces, with their corresponding prints, 3 visual studies framed by Sylvain, and a box-set which includes the 4 cards and a 20 pages study booklet.
www.acertainspace.com/korf-ar-son
I will present it tomorrow in streaming like I did for the last releases, with a static visual and the music running for synchronized listening.
Our dear Michael Iona said:
Korf ar Son never strays far from their source in silence and stillness: sound and image linger at the periphery, fading into an indefinite monochrome haze. A perpetual suspension in a liminal state. An invitation to attend not only to its own resonances, but likewise to those inarticulate resonances that we bear, often unnoticed, within ourselves.
The music of Korf ar Son emerges just as much from the act of listening as it does from performance. Each composition has its own aged piano, each with its own intonations, creaks and sighs. These “imperfections” become the raw musical material from which further sounds are probed, discovered, and developed.
From the act of listening comes images, which are, in a sense, graphic transcriptions of the music. They map out not so much a spatial topography as much as a temporal one: a hypnotic journey into the deep interior.
