LISTEN
unmeasured
This music is about the practice of ‘presence’: as I play, each attack dissolves into decay, into a shaping of the next attack. My attention begins and ends in each moment. I look for micro-moments of presence as I prepare for the next hand shape – is there more to notice? These moments of awareness feed forward – they contribute to a swirling orientation in and around this chord, then this phrase, then this resonance. Listening provides me with inspiration: I keep playing and expressing these sounds. This music permits me to sink into the detail of now.
HEKATE’S VOICES
Now released on Sawyer Spaces
HEKATE’S VOICES is the latest fruit of the collaborative partnership between composer Ed Cooper and pianist Kate Ledger. Sitting between ambient and experimental genres, this work is a meditation on transience and intimacy. The 40-minute piece uses witchcraft as its inspiration, attempting to invoke the powerful but ever elusive Hekate between its materials: recordings of Mother Shipton’s Cave and Pendle Hill, multi-tracked piano, distant vocals, and unexpected heartbeats. These materials often hover around and within each other, collapsing as they come into focus, as if the piece is a mediator between internal and external realities. Contorted, bittersweet expression is entangled with emotional blankness, making the two indistinct from each other. HEKATE’S VOICES is an exercise in deceptive catoptromancy and acceptance.
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A discussion and performance of A Series of Postures (Piano) by Ray Evanoff
