Thursday, May 03, 2007

Hauschka - The Prepared Piano

By myrkursoli

Artist: Hauschka
Album:
The Prepared Piano
Released:
2005
Genre:
Experimental Piano Music

Tracklist

01. La Seine
02. Traffic
03. Fernpunkt
04. Where Were You
05. Gingko Tree
06. Firn
07. Twins
08. Two Stones
09. Kein Wort
10. Long Walk
11. Kreuzung
12. Morning


Greek
Το “The Prepared Piano” του Hauschka είναι το απόσταγμα της απογυμνωμένης μελαγχολίας του Erik Satie, των καινοτομιών του John Cage και της toy-pop του Klimperei. Με πιο απλά λόγια: η τεχνική του prepared piano εφαρμοσμένη σε λιτές μελωδίες που αποπνέουν όμως μια φρέσκια παιδικότητα. Ο Cage ήταν αυτός που αποκαθήλωσε και επαναπροσδιόρισε εξ ολοκλήρου το μουσικό όργανο της μπουρζουαζίας, βάζοντας στο παιχνίδι tapes, βιδώνοντας και ξεβιδώνοντας, τοποθετώντας κάθε είδους αντικείμενα που θα μπορούσαν να χωρέσουν ανάμεσα στις χορδές και να παράγουν ήχους πρωτόγνωρους. Έκτοτε όμως, η τεχνική του prepared piano ταυτίστηκε με avant-garde προσανατολισμούς. Πολύ λίγοι καλλιτέχνες τόλμησαν να χρησιμοποιήσουν παραέξω αυτή την τεχνική κατάκτηση. Οι Frank Pahl, Pascal Comelade και το γαλλικό ντουέτο των Klimperei, όλοι τους κατασκευαστές χειροποίητων πειραγμένων οργάνων έκαναν βήματα προς αυτή την κατεύθυνση, όμως έδειχναν πάντα προτίμηση στις πειραγμένες κιθάρες και στα toy instruments. O Volker Bertelmann, λέγε με Hauschka, συνέλαβε μια σειρά σύντομων μελωδιών που φτάνουν να μοιάζουν με εκλεπτυσμένες πιανομελωδίες υποβασταζόμενες από μια ορχήστρα παιχνιδιών, με περιστασιακά σόλο πιάνο σε κάποιες μεμονωμένες στιγμές (με μια πινελιά από μπάσο και επεξεργασμένα ηλεκτρονικά τύμπανα στο “Morning”). Η γραφή του είναι ευλογημένη, ανοιχτή προς κάθε ανάγνωση, κι ίσως κάποιες φορές ξαστοχεί μέσα από προβλέψιμες επαναλήψεις. Οι επεμβάσεις σε καμία περίπτωση δεν θα χαρακτηρίζονταν αναλώσιμες. Ο Bertelmann χρησιμοποιεί συγκεκριμένα μέρη του κλαβιέ για να παράγει ρυθμό, εγκαινιάζοντας ένα μεταλλικό overtone, μέσα στην φιλόδοξη προσπάθεια του να γεννήσει μια περσόνα larger-than-life για τον εαυτό του και την τέχνη του. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι ένα σαγηνευτικό όσο και feel-good άκουσμα, λίγο άνισο παρά την ιδιοφυή βάση του, μα σου αφήνει μια αίσθηση απόλαυσης και ουσιαστικής ανανεωτικής διάθεσης…

English
Hauschka's “The Prepared Piano” is the distillation of Erik Satie's stripped-down languor, John Cage's innovations, and Klimperei's toy pop. Or in other words: the prepared piano technique applied to simple tunes that have a childlike quality to them. Cage had desecrated and reinvented the bourgeois instrument par excellence in the 1940s, taping, screwing, and placing almost every small object possible on its strings to conjure up new sounds. nce then, the prepared piano has mostly remained a tool of the avant-garde. Few artists have tried to use it outside that niche. Homemade instrument aficionados like Frank Pahl, Pascal Comelade, and the French duo Klimperei have occasionally turned to it, but generally preferred to "prepare" guitars and toy instruments. Hauschka, aka Volker Bertelmann, conceived a series of short tunes that sound like delicate piano melos backed by a toy orchestra, except it's all solo piano (plus a touch of bass and electronic drums in "Morning"). The writing is graceful, accessible, maybe a tad too repetitive. The preparations never sound like a disposable add-on; Bertelmann uses specific regions of the keyboard to create rhythm, introduce a metallic overtone, or simply create a larger-than-life persona for his piano. The result is a charming feel-good album, slightly inconsequential despite its cleverness, but enjoyable and fresh-sounding.

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