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Gordon Monahan
This Piano Thing
Album CA 1992 on Swerve Editions label
Classical (Modern, Avant-garde, Experimental)
Piano Mechanics was composed during 1981-86. This Piano Thing was composed in 1989. Recorded in the Luscar Recording Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts, October 1990. I would like to dedicate this CD to John Cage and Conlon Nancarrow for the inspiration of their piano music, and to Alvin Lucier, for pioneering the idea of composing music based on the known and unknown acoustical principles and phenomenology of sound. Comes with 20-page booklet.
Musicians
 | Gordon Monahan p, CA composed by, producer, performer, blüthner concert grand piano, microphones, tripin vorcetser, album by |
 | Trimpin , arranged by |
Producers
| Andre White engineer |
| John Oswald producer, edited by |
Composers
| Gordon Monahan |
Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Piano Mechanics (Solo For Unaltered Piano) | Gordon Monahan | 31:30 | |
| 2 | Voices Emerging Along High Tension Wires | Gordon Monahan | 4:21 | |
| 3 | Abrupt Stops | Gordon Monahan | 4:15 | |
| 4 | Solitary Waves 1 | Gordon Monahan | 1:08 | |
| 5 | Solitary Waves 2 | Gordon Monahan | 9:22 | |
| 6 | Trill With Hand-Controlled Pitch Release | Gordon Monahan | 2:26 | |
| 7 | Solitary Waves 3 | Gordon Monahan | 1:15 | |
| 8 | Melody Concealed By A Tremolo / High Trills Becoming Difference Tones | Gordon Monahan | 4:16 | |
| 9 | Fingers And Arms Becoming Four Hands | Gordon Monahan | 4:28 | |
| 10 | This Piano Thing (For Solo Prepared Piano) | Gordon Monahan | 30:50 | |
| 11 | Piano Drilling | Gordon Monahan | 12:08 | |
| 12 | Moving And Stationary | Gordon Monahan | 2:36 | |
| 13 | Screws, Nuts, Washers | Gordon Monahan | 4:05 | |
| 14 | Prelude - The Din Of Demolition | Gordon Monahan | 12:01 |
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