Piano Nets
Denis Smalley
Programme notes
To Philip Mead
Piano Nets is in three movements which have common piano material but are different in style, mainly due to the influence of the changing electroacoustic environment. The piano writing revolves around a variety of chord-flavors and sonorities which can be heard across all movements — for example
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Piano Nets was realized in the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). The electroacoustic material was mostly created during a research period at Ircam in Paris (France) in 1989 — a stay funded by a bursary from the Arts Council of Great Britain
Premiere
- October 13, 1990, Philip Mead, piano
; Denis Smalley, diffusion • Norfolk & Norwich Triennial Festival, Concert Room — Music Centre — University of East Anglia, Norwich (England, UK)
- Composer(s): Denis Smalley
- Year of composition: 1990, 91
- Instrumentation: piano and stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: Sonic Arts Network (SAN) with support from the Arts Council of Great Britain
Movements
1st movement
- Movement of: Piano Nets
- Duration: 6:59
- ISRC: CAD500418190
2nd movement
- Movement of: Piano Nets
- Duration: 4:20
- ISRC: CAD500418200
3rd movement
- Movement of: Piano Nets
- Duration: 6:33
- ISRC: CAD500418210
