“Take the 200-year-old tradition of piano music for four hands, multiply it by, oh, two and a half, and cross it with Henry Cowell and John Cage’s experiments on the pianoforte’s inner regions, otherwise known as prepared piano. When the room stops spinning, what you might end up with is Stephen Scott. ... Piano preparation has the rep of being noisy and cranky, but Cage’s early pieces were often purposely lovely and gamelanlike. Scott explores similarly exotic territory, preferring echoey sonorities and consonant harmonies over grating and dissonance. ...”
YouTube: The Bowed Piano Ensemble perform Stephen Scott's Entrada (Live), Stephen Scott demonstrates the Bowed Piano (Live)
YouTube: New Music For Bowed Piano - 6 videos
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