Inside-out piano: Sarah Nicolls

Gigs coming up this week (Monday 7th March, 2011)

sarahpiano — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:13:45 +0000

This week: Piano + live electronics gigs (Richard Barrett’s Adrift, Atau Tanaka’s Suspensions and Michael Edwards’ I believe the highest human achievement can be accomplished with a raging heart

AT Edinburgh University at 1.10pm on Friday 11th March

Next week: Lecture, workshop and performance with Richard Barrett of Adrift at the Hague’s Institute of Sonority, Netherlands on Tuesday 15th March

Gallery

sarahpiano — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:28:05 +0000

Sonatas, Pianos, Machines and Interludes

sarahpiano — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:54:17 +0000

Pianos, Sonatas, Machines & Interludes

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Collaborative project I curated, working with four very different piano re-inventors.

CDs for sale

sarahpiano — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:58:04 +0000

Castiglioni Piano Music

Alexander’s Annexe/WARP – piano&electronics trio with Mira Calix and David Sheppard

Richard Barrett’s Adrift

Michael Edwards I kill by proxy

How the inside-out piano came about

sarahpiano — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:42:41 +0000

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STEIM blog link

sarahpiano — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:17:07 +0000

Write up of Artistic Residency at STEIM, Amsterdam, 2010: Disklavier project with Hugo Morales Murguia

Inside-out piano dressed up

sarahpiano — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:30:55 +0000

with motors, the "wii-wheel" and essential one-man-band items

Here is the Inside-out piano. I made it in November 2008 and have been gigging on it since then. The idea behind the piano was to make the insides more accessible, thus the strings are above the keyboard, right in front of the pianist. I also felt this would be much more interesting for an audience to look at. The addition of electronics came through thinking about how an electronic-like layering of sounds might happen, without having to use electronic sounds. The “wii-wheel” (the bike wheel on the left) came from thinking about how to control live processing in a physical way. By pressing different buttons on the wii attached to the wheel, different processes are activated and then controlled by the spinning.