Foldings

Foldings

	In 2006 I developed a novel mapping technique, allowing musical exploration of large parameter spaces from different performance interfaces, later expanded into a family of novel improvisation instruments. In 2011 and 2012, I adapted it to my main instrument, the piano, creating an augmented hybrid instrument from a normal grand. Foldings consists of acoustic and virtual resonating bodies, all sounds originating from the piano, allowing for unorthodox playing (knocking, plucking, …). Processed sounds are projected from speakers behind the piano, and acoustic and processed sounds interact and blend into one new instrument. Processing is controlled from keyboard alone. Each key has a certain effect on processing parameters, and effects of different keys are accumulated; essentially a vectorization of control parameters, allowing intuitive control of complex processing by ear. The instrument is not random, but somewhat unpredictable. This feeds into the improvisation, just like how ideas from a fellow improviser provides unpredictability and food for reaction, leading into a new direction, spurring further reactions. Like chasing a moving target. Hence, the instrument itself is an essential part of the musical outcome. The technology is simple but effective: A MIDI-enabled grand (Disklavier, or Moog Piano Bar), four microphones, signal processor with custom software and two speakers adjacent to the piano. Foldings have been used with different sound engines, e.g., a microtonal adaptive resonator and an adaptive buffer shuffler. Performances include concerts in Sweden and Japan, alone and with others. Also used by John Tilbury in an improvisation concert in 2011.	sv
	Foldings is a work for piano and electronics, developed 2011-2012, reconstructing the piano as a hybrid electronic/acoustic instrument, augmenting its timbre through complex processing and advanced mapping techniques, developed within Palle Dahlstedt’s research project Creative Performance. These new modes of expression, while using only the traditional klavier, also invite and encourage new ways of playing, and this forms the basis for the musical content of the work. Two or three sound engines are used, each with very different character and suitable interaction patterns, performed as two or three different movements.	sv
	Swedish Research Council	sv
	Foldings-info	sv
	Folding-slides	sv
	Solo 1, Ljudfil	sv
	Solo 2, Ljudfil	sv
	Concert, Artisten, April 13, 2011 Lecture/recital, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, September 25, 2011 Concert, Hagakyrkan, Göteborg, May 5, 2012 Concert, Sydney University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, June 21, 2012 Lecture/recital, Interactive Keyboard Symposium, Goldsmiths College, London, 10 nov 2012	sv
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GSU9i_rQQk	sv
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3EnUgneiIs	sv
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4jcAocO4dM	sv
	Artistic works, Composition	sv
	Dahlstedt, Palle
	2013-01-09T15:01:19Z
	2013-01-09T15:01:19Z
	2012
	The work was peer-reviewed and selected for presentation at the Interactive Keyboard Symposium, Goldsmiths College, London, 9-11 Nov, 2012.	sv
	This work was developed within the research project Creative Performance, directed by Palle Dahlstedt, Dept. of Applied IT and the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg.
	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/31851
	Improvisation	sv
	Piano	sv
	Hybrid instruments	sv
	Disklavier	sv
	Elektronic music	sv
	Mapping	sv
	Foldings	sv
	artistic work