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Aperion 09:22
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Grimace 02:12
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3.
Humans Resonating 04:28
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4.
Insecting 09:20
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FER 09:33
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Odd Beats 07:33
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The Quiet Garden 05:54
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Off Distance 11:11
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In 2001, when Philip Zoubek began his jazz studies at the academy in Cologne, he was particularly fascinated by free improvisation. Specifically, he was taken by music that broke with the traditional division of roles and the function of instruments, music which encompassed expanded techniques in its sound design. By then, Zoubek had already gained experiences with various forms of free music, notably free jazz. Through these engagements he realised that the piano, with its quantised temperament, often seemed like a foreign body in relation to the advanced variations that other instruments were capable of. Thus, with the utmost ingenuity, he began manipulating the piano’s interior with diverse materials. Using different objects he either applied them directly to animate the chords or, like Cage, placed them in-between the chords. In the course of this process of sound research he became aware of the orchestral possibilities of prepared piano: it could, for example, sound like a gamelan orchestra, or like a synthesizer, a percussion ensemble or like Xenakis-inspired glissandi. And something else became clear to him:

“(…) that I thereby created an open field for myself in which I could project into the prepared piano’s sound space everything I knew about music and in which I could ultimately find my own voice. But the internalisation of musical material is, as is often the case in music, only a vehicle for that which interests me most: to relay to the listeners my self-discovered emotional clarity, communication and transcendence.”

Over the years his set-up for preparations has continuously changed – and so has the music. »Air« is but an extract of this development. In contrast to his usual live concerts, which comprise improvisations of one or two pieces with developmental character, this recording features shorter and more concentrated pieces.

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released January 12, 2018

All compositions by Philip Zoubek. Recorded December 2014 by Stefan Deistler at Loft, Cologne, Germany. Mixed and edited by Philip Zoubek and Pedja Avramovic at Mediapark Studios, Cologne, Germany. Artwork by Markus Dorninger.

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