LIGETIAN VARIATIONS & Other Counterpoints for Automatic Piano

by Riccardo Massari Spiritini

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1.	A List Of World Criminals 03:36
2.	Ligetian Variation #0 (preludio in diagonale) 01:09
3.	Ligetian Variation #1 (group autoportrait with Nancarrow, Ligeti, Barlow, and in the back S.Reich and J.Coltrane) 05:42
4.	Ligetian Variation #2 (Nancarrow's Garden - a conversation with Andrés Solis and Mako Nancarrow) 01:56
5.	Ligetian Variation #3 (Sunday counterpoint) 01:09
6.	Ligetian Variation #4 (inverse mirror evaporation) (free) 01:45		download
7.	Ligetian Variation #5 (estudio para la variación #1) 01:33
8.	Ligetian Variation #6 (interlude in different meters) 01:03
9.	Ligetian Variation #7 (a Syrian disphase) 01:20	info
10.	Ligetian Variation #8 (Ricercare - with José Guillen) 04:19	info
11.	Ligetian Variation #9 (interludio in diagonale) 01:12
12.	Ligetian Variation #10 (Ostinato Disphase #1) 00:54
13.	Ligetian Variation #11(Reflected) 01:21
14.	Ligetian Variation #12 (Ad Infinitum - in memoriam of Conlon Nancarrow) 02:43	info
15.	Lista Número Siete (automatic user interface) 02:57
16.	Ligetian Variation #13 (ostinato multiplo dionisiaco) 03:42	info

about

Music for automates and specifically for mechanical piano is one of my interests since I discovered the music of Conlon Nancarrow in the `90.
Then this interest grew up even more during my studies with Clarence Barlow in the Netherlands and since then I collected many compositions created specifically for this music instrument.
Since then I published "Il Sogno ed il Martello" in 2004, my first extended work for Automatic Piano, premiered in Barcelona, and in Gent, Belgium, in an Automata Orchestra transcription produced at LOGOS Foundation.
The sound of the Automatic Piano recordings I produced independently is obtained with a digital application that simulates quite well the sound of an acoustic piano. To record properly with a grand mechanical piano all my compositions is a project that hopefully will be possible in the future. I believe anyway that also with the artificial recording you can enjoy the form and the sound of my work in details, something that even with a recording of my studio upright Disklavier would not be so brillant.

LIGETIAN VARIATIONS is a project that I had in mind since at least ten years, fascinated by the simplicity of György Ligeti's piece Musica Ricercata N.7 : this piece consists of a simple obstinate for the left hand and a melodic line that the right hand play "freely" on top.
This compositions is open in Time. It is something that, like others in Ligeti's work, shows how much he was familiar to the "rhythm" preoccupations of the great Conlon Nancarrow. My humble contribution isa collection of 13 variations on Ligeti's material, but I felt free to use also other materials and play with parallelisms, convinced that at a certain point "anything can be a variation of something else". In the published recordings I added two other recent compositions that open and close the program. Variation #0 and #9 are also a kind of minimal etude on durations that goes well together with the rest. Single titles of each variation speak a lot about my intentions. I suggest you to listen also to Ligeti's Musica Ricercata N.7 if you can, although in Variation #1 you can practically listen to it almost clearly.

R.M.S., April 28 - 2018, Barcelona

credits

released November 28, 2018

Thanks to Andrés Solis for inviting me to participate at MECÁNICA NANCARROW (una celebración de Conlon Nancarrow- 1997-2017) where Ligetian Variation #1 was premiered together with compositions of world great contemporary composers like Clarence Barlow, Kyle Gann, Juan Sebastian Lach y Alberto Novello, James Tenney and Michael Benjamin Winter.

Thanks to José Guillen for His contribution for Variation#8 (see track detailed information) -

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Riccardo Massari Spiritini

Riccardo Massari Spiritini is a composer of electronic & acoustic music.
More than 30 years of experience and experiments in the sound and music field.

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