Tim Daoust - "Moon, Tides, Cycles" (2011) for Piano & Live Electronics

"Moon, Tides, Cycles" (2011) for Piano & Live Electronics by Tim Daoust (b.1981)

Performed and premiered live at the Metropolitan Room, New York, NY on July 27th, 2011

Tania Stavreva, Piano www.taniastavreva.com
Tim Daoust, Live Electronics www.timdaoust.com

Program Note:

"The moon's gravity causes the tides on Earth as it orbits the planet, it's silent forces pulling the great mass of ocean along with it as it circles. These tidal forces are simultaneously affect the moon, pushing the moon gradually into an ever faster orbit which widens by an extra inch every year. Moon, Tides, Cycles is a piece about this constant back and forth tugging that will, inevitably, in time push the moon ever farther away from us and out of our gravity. In this piece, the piano is miked and processed, the resulting electronic sound swelling and fading as the tides do during the lunar cycle. The electronic sounds are dependent upon the original sound waves coming from the piano, just as the Earth's tides are dependent upon the gravity of the moon. The improvisatory and free form nature of the piece, as the two elements, electronics and piano, operate on each other in tandem, is an analogue to the delicate dance of the moon and the Earth in space, a beautiful dependency that cannot last forever, just as a child must leave its mother, a bird must fly from the nest." - Tim Daoust

More info on NY 1 News: http://www.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/arts/143455/performers-paint-a-new-pict...

Photos on the slide show: by Edward Lee
Body Paint (Tania's back on the screen): by Danny Setiawan

Category:

Music

Tags:

• New
• Music
• Contemporary
• Electronics
• Electronica
• Classical
• Piano
• Impressionist
• Modern
• Improvisation
• Moon
• Tides
• Cycles
• Tania
• Stavreva
• Tim
• Daoust
• Bulgarian
• American
• 2011
• Live
• Dance
• Body
• Paint
• Metropolitan
• Room
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• NY
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• Movement
• Free
• Freedom

[Tokyotimezone]

This is delicately insane. I Love it.