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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2025
- Robin Hilton | April 24, 2024
The last time Volker Bertelmann stopped by NPR to perform as Hauschka, back in 2010, he dumped handfuls of Ping-Pong balls and anything else he could think of over the strings of our in-house grand piano, a performance captured in one of NPR's pristine studios (in a building that no longer exists). But for the Tiny Desk, the pianist and composer assumed the challenge of preparing our significantly smaller upright in a much-less-controlled environment.
It's hard to spot everything Hauschka deployed for this mostly improvised set, but after dismantling much of the piano's cabinet, he stuffed the strings with tin foil, a glob of pink putty, cellophane, piano tuner mutes, sleigh bells, gaffers tape and whatever else he could rummage from a large bag of toys he carries with him.
Hauschka is joined by cellists Carol Anne Bosco and Devree Lewis who, since the set was mostly improvised, were told to simply come on "about 10 minutes" into his performance. Note that the songs are named for the location they were performed, in this case "Washington," and numbered. The closing cut, "Loved Ones," is from his latest album, Philanthropy.
Bertelmann's performance at the Tiny Desk comes just over a year after winning an Oscar for his score to the film All Quiet On The Western Front.
SET LIST
"Washington One"
"Washington Two"
"Washington Three"
"Loved Ones"
MUSICIANS
Hauschka, aka Volker Bertelmann: piano
Carol Anne Bosco: cello
Devree Lewis: cello
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Robin Hilton
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Technical Director: Josephine Nyounai
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel
Audio Engineer: Neil Tevault
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Michael Zamora
Tiny Desk Team: Hazel Cills, Kara Frame
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
#nprmusic #tinydesk #hauschka
if you drift off too far from your spaceship and look around, this is the soundtrack.
0:01 Washington One
3:32 Washington Two
8:22 Washington Three
12:39 Loved Ones ❤ (cellos)
I've never seen or heard anything quite like that. Wow
😂😂😂😂
Live undera rock or what
@@andrucho_3557 Bahahahahaha. ok loser. nice profile pic. is that so everyone can tell how cool you are 😃
I agree it's quite unique
Just found this video. I love that Hauschka is still doing his wonderful thing. I saw him live at a Roskilde Festival more than 20 years ago and it was such an amazing concert. Thank you for the upload.
Glad to see that minimalism is alive and well in contemporary music. Brilliant work!
"Glad to see your creative piano tuner ended in 'harmony' with the cellists"!
Only jesting. I very much enjoyed this. Indeed, it is great to have such contrasts on NPR.
PHENOMENAL! LOVE LOVE & MORE LOVE
Loving the variety of Tiny Desk, and always superb sound engineering
That was quite interesting! Unique experience listening with bewilderment and anticipation. Found it to be very fluid, Rhythmic and entertaining. I enjoyed this! Thank you sir!! Well done 👏
Finally! For a long while, I thought Tiny Desk had gone totally pop and rap. But at long last, something unusual, more NPR-like!
Oh there have been the usual assortment of Jazz, Classical, and more offbeat artists as well the past few weeks. Check out Tarta Relena in particular - that one was weird and awesome in all the best ways.
@@RobertDPore Hey, thanks for the tip on Tarta Relena. They were great! :-)
That's so amazing, no words for this show. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The last song just transports you, found my self swaying gently with my eyes half closed
Loved this set! The flow between each piece, while they seemed to be chaotic and arbritrary. Completely unexpected and enjoyable. Thank you for introducing Hauschka into our lives!
As a kid I watched a piano tuner try to wrestle our old upright no one else wanted and was fascinated by the inner workings. Soon my sister and I were all up in there using it like a percussion instrument. Many years later at a warehouse party there was a tower built from old piano innards. You would break off a hammer on your way up, climbing and playing with other climbers with their hammers. It was destruction and creation throughput the night till the only unbroken strings were the deep bass ones. It felt complete.
Thanks for sharing these connected anecdotes, sounds like you and your sister were very avant garde haha. I'd pay good money to hear a recording of that piano tower being "played".
@@t0xcn253 there may be recordings somewhere - the people who built them had apparently been building them at Lollapalooza concerts. The one I experienced was at the long gone Phoenix Ironworks in Oakland CA. The walkways throughout the warehouse were lined with old pianos. It was part gallery, part live/work space for a bunch of artists, and quite the party spot.
@Groundedsquirrel I see, I'd assume someone or other might have recorded it at lollapalooza, what year would it have been if you don't mind me asking?
@@t0xcn253 1991-1993 ish.
@Groundedsquirrel wish I could have been there to see it in person, such an amazing time for "alternative music", but I would have been 7 or 8 and probably still listening to Michael Jackson unfortunately lol.
Wow, this is a whole adventure of a music experience
I really enjoy his stuff. Reminds me a lot of Ryuichi Sakamoto so the fact that this is all improvised is very impressive.
Very creative putting percussion in the piano. Creates a nice soundscape.
Refreshing. So creative ❤
I'd like to hear him colab with Thom Yorke.
Seriously!
I was thinking TOOL
Oh man, Thom Yorke and Tool would be super cool collabs!
Crazy amount of haters in the comments. This is really very interesting, not something I'd normally put on, but clearly well crafted, different and very very musical. Loved it, thanks!
Haters? If I don't enjoy something, I'm not being hateful; it's a matter of individual taste and preference.
@@bobleroe3859 sure, music is subjective. The comments I'm talking about are rude about the musician and the music... You can say you don't like something without being rude. If you were not rude in your comment, then I wasn't talking about you
Excelente!. Gracias!!
He is a mad scientist
film scoring for sure
Amazing!
Beautifully & brilliantly creative for this chaotic place 🌎✨️💝
Perfect Music for a psychological thriller.
Un maestro !! Otro nivel
This reminds me of that video of the guy with the giant marble machine in the white room that plays music
Wintergarten.... But his music is a lot more enjoyable than this cacophony
Spectacular
Phenomenal
Hauschka 🔥
Wow.... 🎉🪷🌄🌿🌞🌌☀️✨💫🌻🌅🧬🌟👽
Just in first one and it’s much like my sleep… 🫤 that said it’s familiar. I’m rather unsettled that my mind is playing a full color movie of a day in my life. Sharing for sure.
Sounds like a 1950's office
when we had typewriters.
See ....... this hynotizing intentional ;) LOVE IT!
Grandios.
So nice. Makes me want to dance
I had something similar to this when I was a toddler... except it was all brightly colored plastic, and there were only 6 or 7 giant plastic keys, and the fiddly bits couldn't be removed so easily. I think the adult version is better. If they'd updated the kids' version to sound a little better (and to be more interesting... there weren't enough danglies, and they were too similar and cheap sounding), then I think there would be many more adults still doing this.
Good morning from Brazil
Brilliant!
I’m like 90% sure that this isn’t Vulfpeck
Not my cup of tea, but I'm happy I was introduced to artist and glad there's a platform for every type of genre.
Fortaleza ,Brasil ❤
I have synesthesia of sound and sight. I could tell something was up at 0:15. I’m paused at 0:50 now. Let’s hear this journey maybe?
3:36 ooh, there’s the path.
9:36 there’s a lot of wandering, but not really much direction.
11:36 I can hear the pictures he’s painting, but we just haven’t gone anywhere. It’s almost like the intro to a Desert Dwellers song, but it just… keeps keeps keeps introducing.
15:41 the first 12 minutes seemed like the place being built, should have been more adventurous.
Yeah, there wasn’t really much melody in there. That took discipline to make it to the actual song.
This is wonderful! 😎👍🏼
Last visit, my grandson dumped a set of Lego’s into my piano. Spent a few hours getting them out. Next time he visits I’ll let him add Tinker Toys and play a duet.
something only the artist can do with a piano
Didn't know that Saul Goodman had hidden talents!
I feel so so bad for any piano tech looking at this. Excellent mic work by the NPR staff.
And camera work
Finally early?!
Is this the return of that really cute cello player?
See! There were a couple of good things that came out of the pandemic…
I was really enjoying the pulse driven textures of his electronic effects and prepared piano performance UNTIL the cellists arrived and broke the spell…although I enjoyed the slow cross fade. I was imaging an ensemble of dancers.
😮😮❤❤uuou. Fascinating*
Músicas pra ouvir assistindo Tom e Jerry. Sim, o desenho...
Westworld ❤️
...how high was he and how effed up was the piano when he first found this sound?
I went to a concert that was of the similar ilk last fall at an Earthquaker Devices event and a guy with a rotating glass bowl contraption that he played like a glass harmonica along with 2 other guys doing odd things with effects loops and such where very interesting at first....but after about 20 minutes and it not really progressing I had to leave.
to each their own i guess?
I can imagine that this is what anxiety would sound like
we getting weird on NPR today
In the best way. 😅
Kind of like 80s group---- "Art of Noise" 😅
2x playback speed is bonkers.
Especially here. 11:30
It really slaps when 13:19 comes in.
If you play it backwards on 78 rpm
You can hear " I bury Paul"
OK. Had to do that. Good fun!
👏👏👏
Found the inspiration for the music in Tears of the Kingdom
I once got banned from /r/music for posting hauschka. Rubbish place.
Harry Oldman learned to play the piano ???
Good for soundtracks.
His neighbours all wear straightjackets.
looks like an indie horror movie
Traigan a “el mato un policía motorizado”plss
I heard a woodpecker on a metal pole
play this before so this is actually a cover song.
Prepared piano...
🇧🇷💚
Saul Goodman?
Blurred Edges Music
This music you here in rayman 2
May that piano bite you !
I can now explain to my doctor what my migraine feels like.
Ok different
Hay una bandera de Chile.
Who is the blonde violinist? 😊
Al I asked for new melodies style Zelda
🤣🤣
First!
Nik Bartch on acid
Il doit s'agir d'un piano récupéré dans la bande de Gaza !
2/10 - Didn't peel the plastic off the display of his Ableton Push.
I don't understand the musicality behind this.
That’s an honest and useful comment. I like it, but it is definitely out of the mainstream. Listen to compositions by John Cage (works for “prepared piano”) and by Philip Glass (nearly anything) for some of his influences.
This artist often plays polyrhythmic patterns, where one beat/meter is kept for a line played in the right hand, and a different beat/meter for a line played by the left hand.
And he’s using a looper/sequencer and a mixer to blend real-time sounds and recorded one’s.
A lot of musicianship/training is necessary to do the things he’s doing, it’s not just tinkering.
I find that by listening to this type of music as more of a meditation, or as a experiment, I enjoy it more than if were I’m listen for its harmonies and melodies.
Defund npr.......except the music part.😅
This guy is trolling
Probably rolling is more like it.
wow I'm early
Uh-huh. 🤨
This is yoko ono but it's a piano
That’s hilarious! 😂
Oh dear, Piano has a bitter experience.. it's too painful to watch to me. sorry
Its sad you can't how unnatural the pristine sound of a piano is. Whilst beautiful, things exist. And the piano isn't hurt.
@@wakaran7790
Just i put myself in that one's shoes.
and i don't think Anything Goes is right.
@@wakaran7790 The piano isn't hurt but my ears sure do.
first of all, WHAT? I have no clue what you are saying. Im guessing that English isn't your first language. This piece isn't about the piano. It's about the feeling.I'm 46 and have played since I was 4 and it's still one of my go-tos when I need a release.
@@Heather_Rena may be a visit to the ENT is in order
No. Thanks
nope .... just nope ....
.......for ASMR poject's...😅🤣😅
Instrument abuse should be a felony.
Who says it’s abuse, lol. It could be quite pleasurable… 😏
Puts sh*t in an upright to make it sound ... different. Cool, bro. Everybody should have a hobby. 🙄
No thank you
This has to be an elaborate scam.