Pieces for Broken Piano - Playing Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Elliott Sharp

Description

We are in 2021. The piano is in the garden; the sun shines and the rain falls on it. It is impossible to tune it. Some keys work partially, others not at all. It is Broken Piano.The first pieces for Broken Piano were recorded on this piano in 2021 and included in the Fluxus editions Stolen Symphony (2023) and Keep Together (2024). The pieces in this edition were written and provided by Terry Riley and Milan Knízák. Broken Piano, acquired by the Opening Performance Orchestra for live and studio recordings, was at the heart of both volumes of this edition between 2021 and 2023.The compositions for Broken Piano intended for the Fluxus editions were recorded by the Czech pianist Miroslav Beinhauer. During this period, other unpublished works for Broken Piano were written by various composers, Fluxus or not. In spring 2022, the Opening Performance Orchestra and Broken Piano participated in an event organized by Mieko Shiomi. It was a new version of her work Spatial Poem: an immersive event whose documentation was presented at the Aichi Triennale 2022 in Tokyo. During this performance, which involved moving any object, Broken Piano was transported from the village of Vyzlovka to Unhost, where the SONO recording studio is located. It is in this studio that the new compositions for Broken Piano, written by Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Milan Knízák, Gordon Monahan, Elliott Sharp, Milan Gustar, and Yoon-Ji Lee, were recorded and constitute the content of this album.As a bonus, the album includes two tracks recorded outdoors - in the garden of a house in the village of Vyzlovka, near Prague - by Terry Riley and P.ST. All the new compositions were recorded by the pianist Miroslav Beinhauer. The Broken Piano currently lies outdoors in Prague and is slowly deteriorating. A broken piano, but a famous one.