Pianoïd

Description

With 'Pianoïd', Edouard Ferlet presents a new project that ventures into the crossroads of classical, electronic, contemporary music, and ambient. A natural evolution for this musician eager to build bridges between genres, from classical to jazz. If Bach has often been the pianist's favorite playground, he now leaps across centuries to place himself under the auspices of a tutelary figure like Philip Glass. Edouard Ferlet thus takes us on a musical journey that is both poetic and technological. An exploration of the instrument-orchestra par excellence, where he delivers soundscapes rich in texture, dreamlike, and deeply original. Pianoïd, a solo piano album then? Not quite. If this project is ostensibly a dialogue between Edouard Ferlet and himself, it is also and above all an exchange between a man and a machine. By taking hold of the Disklavier, an automated and mechanical piano system, the musician plays with his virtual double. There are thus two pianos. One is in Edouard's hands, the other is a machine. It is his reflection, his mechanical creature. This other Edouard is precise, rigorous, formal, but also deviant and disruptive. This tool indeed allows for producing modes of play that man cannot achieve: quantity of simultaneous notes, complex rhythms, speed of execution, increased nuances... Man, whose playing is augmented and multiplied, faces the Machine, sometimes submissive or intelligent, always surprising. Far from a mere stylistic exercise, 'Pianoïd' offers a vision of what a "piano solo" can be, whose musical language is augmented by a virtual being.