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The Well Frozen Piano

by Felipe Vaz

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The "Well-Frozen Piano" is an attempt at bringing La Monte Young's masterpiece, The Well-Tuned Piano, closer to his own vision of a music that would last forever. Based on frequency spectra extracted from sections of Young's piece, this release consists of a drone composition with Vaz's arrangement of these spectra over time, and a computer application that allows for both an endless generation of drones and the replication of a multichannel sound installation based on them. It is accompanied of a booklet with an essay on the relationship between Young's work and the "experiential turn" in the arts.

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released November 11, 2022

Felipe Vaz is a Brazilian sound artist and composer living in Berlin. Most of his works investigate temporal processes and either conceptual or spatial issues related to sound and music, and his installations and his music have been presented in galleries and shows such as Casa Encendida (Madrid), Acud Macht Neu and Transmediale Vorspiel (Berlin), Novas Frequências (Rio de Janeiro) among many others. Vaz holds a master’s degree from UdK Berlin, and recently received a Musikfonds grant for an ongoing research on composition using animated graphic notation. His music has been released on New York Haunted (NL), Differ Records (SE) and others.

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