2016
84 Pianos (2017)
for all the pianos in the Queensland Conservatorium played at once. 30:00.
Can you imagine the sound of 84 pianos, performing simultaneously?
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Crashing tone clusters, droning arpeggios, fragments of familiar tunes fill the halls, hallways, practice rooms, nooks and crannies of Queensland Conservatorium in a never-before attempted mass piano performance. Using all of the pianos at the Queensland Conservatorium in-situ, this work will literally sound the building, and provide audiences with a chance to explore and compare acoustic spaces at the conservatorium. A choose-your-own adventure entry inside a piece of new music, conceived by Vanessa Tomlinson and composed specially for this event by Erik Griswold.
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84 Pianos was part of 100 ways to listen, created for the World Science Festival 2017.