Pianist Heleen Van Haegenborgh and elec­tron­ic com­pos­er Esther Venrooy join forces in a project that explores the syn­er­gy of acoustic piano with elec­tron­i­ca and dig­i­tal sound pro­cess­ing. Both musi­cians are keen col­lab­o­ra­tors and have worked exten­sive­ly with dif­fer­ent media. 

Their col­lab­o­ra­tion aims to draw the lis­ten­er into the inner work­ings of the piano. Armed with a bat­tery of micro­phones they set out to find hid­den sounds with­in the piano. Resonating ele­ments and tiny inaudi­ble mechan­i­cal sounds are cap­tured, manip­u­lat­ed and mag­ni­fied through elec­tron­ic means, result­ing in frag­ile tex­tures where the bound­aries between elec­tron­ic and acoustic sound become blurred.

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Credits

• Music
  Esther Venrooy and Heleen Van Haegenborgh
• Performance
  Esther Venrooy and Heleen Van Haegenborgh
• Label
  Entr’acte
• Recording
  Johan Vandermaelen
• Graphical design
  Allon Kaye
• Length
  52’
• Première
  May 08, 2008