Eka Chabashvili - Has Piano Music Come to an End? Nino Jvania and Tamar Zhvania (Zhvaniasisters)

Performance "Piano Apocalypse or Has Piano Music Come to an End?" was recorded on November 13, 2021, in the Grand Hall of V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire. It is an output of an artistic research project financed by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (FR-18-4275).
‘Piano music has come to an end and something quite different is coming. I sense it clearly: with the claviers made up to this time, there is nothing new to discover any more’, declared Karlheinz Stockhausen on 24 October 1992, at the auditorium of the Pädagogische Hochschule in Weingarten. It is difficult not to agree with the German composer who nevertheless continued to compose for piano both before and after 1992. However, the fact is that contemporary composers engage themselves less and less with the piano - particularly as a solo instrument. Inspired by Stockhausen’s lecture, a Georgian pianist Nino Jvania - a prominent performer of contemporary piano music - decided to find out whether piano music has truly come to an end, conducting the artistic research together with one of the most significant contemporary Georgian composers Eka Chabashvili and a pianist Tamar Zhvania who is also interested in contemporary piano music.
The research has resulted in a large-scale piano piece/performance composed by Eka Chabashvili in cooperation with Nino Jvania and Tamar Zhvania. The piece reflects on both the evolution of piano music through the centuries and the experiments conducted by artistic researchers. The performance engages two pianos, one modified piano ModEkAl developed by Chabashvili, and a piano master Alexander Zirakashvili, virtual and chamber piano orchestras. Interestingly, the artistic researchers engage only with acoustic pianos, avoiding any employment of technologies (except amplification) to modify the piano sound.
The piece consists of three stages:
Stage 1 - World of the Piano - Materialization of an Idea for the philosophical tale, virtual and chamber piano orchestras - 00:10 and Life 1 - Birth of the Piano - 16:45
Stage 2 - 7 Lives of the Piano for two pianos - 19:00
Life 2 - Forte/Piano
Life 3 - Speed/Piano
Life 4 - Color/Piano
Life 5 - Point/Piano
Life 6 - Registers/Piano
Life 7 - Space/Piano (Extended Piano)
Life 8 - Time/Piano (Extended Piano)
Stage 3 - Life 9 - Eco/Piano. Anamnesis of COVID 19 for ModEkAl for ModEkAl after the Facebook post by a Georgian writer Guram Megrelishvili - 50:16
The piece/performance contains short quotations from piano works by Giustini, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin, Mamisashvili, Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez, Svanidze, Bartok, Messiaen, Xenakis, Murail, Lachenmann, Ives, Haba, Cage, Cowell, Ligeti, Schugliashvili, Reich, Stockhausen. Chabashvili.
The film was produced by:
Nino Basilashvili
Amiran Gogidze
Vano Khvadagiani
Giorgi Odzelashvili
Sound engineer - Pavle Kvachadze

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