Piano Concerto by Simon Steen-Andersen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2021
- Performed by Nicolas Hodges, Andre de Ridder and Helsinki Symphony Orchestra, February 2021 for live streaming.
By Simon Steen-Andersen 2014
Commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage
Program note:
In Piano Concerto the perfect, classical grand piano is confronted with a battered, almost completely broken, grand piano in a sort of virtual double concerto. The soloist, Nicolas Hodges, sits across from a video doppelgänger playing the damaged instrument that has been dropped onto a concrete floor from a height of 8 meters.
Confronted with the damaged, out of tune piano we may experience the newly tuned, classical grand piano and symphony orchestra in a slightly different light. The composer insists however that this is not just a broken instrument - it is a new, “prepared” instrument with an expanded palette of sounds and its own poetry and beauty.
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A mind-blowing and absolutely exhilarating piece! I don't think this has to do at all with "images from a broken world". This is pure fun 🙂
Images from a broken world - but with Simons incredible sense of composing not only with sound, notes and harmony, but also with the situation, perception, the listeners capability and associations, memory, expectations and more on a extreemly skilled level. If this had happened 200 years ago it would have been Haydn :-)
So happy to watch this video again :)
I don't hesitate thinking of this precious work as the best contemporary piano concerto...!
I don't get how there is no scorevideo made yet!!
Mind blowing. Amazing composer I first heard at an Other Minds series. It was an audiovisual work with an electronic score and compelling abstract visuals. I can see a similar dialogue here between sounds and images. Love the big orchestra too.
This is wonderful, thank you for the upload. Never had a chance so far to see the actual performance!
so good…
Beautiful piece for me the best concerto of the last decade
So amazing!!
THIS IS AMAZING AT SO MANY LEVELS!
so good...
Amazing............
I find it amusing that the comments contain the same old "this sounds like garbage, it's horrifying!" rhetoric, though I'm rather confused that the people who are choosing to reply and defend the piece find this to be a "horrifying" work (in the greatest sense). Personally, I found the overwhelming majority of the piece to be quite playful, colorful, and even dance-like (which is certainly made all the more apparent by a cut-out display of the same performer being controlled by the same live performer). Regardless, I'm sure most can agree that this a fabulous work!!
Big round of applause at the end.
I wonder what the Steinway company thinks about it, aside from hoping the pianos are Yamaha?
24:15 is especially nice....
23:12
Piano breaks down,
being dropped too many times,
it stopped thinking about and started dancing
Are there any program notes online for this? I don't know why I ask, just my nature I guess.Maybe I should be satisfied that I enjoy the hell out of listening to it. Anyways, I'm glad you composed it.
Great to hear, and yes, even if it's very short and mostly descriptive: www.simonsteenandersen.com/projects/piano-concerto
@@simonsteen-andersen3181 Thanks! Are there any talks about bringing it to the U.S.? How far would they have to book a concert of something like that. My local orchestra would be the L.A. Phil., they don't seem as anxious to get new music in Disney Hall as the Used to be when they played out of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (excepting the Giuliani era, but they sounded really good). Anyways, thanks again and best wishes.
How did he sample the video and play it with midi?
We sound- and video-recorded the pianist playing single notes with different attacks and at different dynamics, as well different chords, clusters, glissandi, etc. Then I simply chopped it up and exported the clips I wanted and set them up with a midi-trigger system. The first many years it ran on Resolume, but at some point this software seemed to increase in latency for this function, so I switched to a Max-msp setup instead ... While this is running the videos, Ableton Live is running in the background with the sounds - both triggered by the same incoming midi-signals ...
@@simonsteen-andersen3181 Incredible! Many compliments and thanks for the answer, your work is very inspiring!
23:00
ええ（困惑）
Esthetique mal vieillie
This is ridiculous on so many levels. Waste of time, money, resources and you even destroyed a piano for this shit. A beautiful grand piano destroyed for nothing. This isn't art or music. I'd call this a joke, but it isn't even funny. Only sad and terrifying.
This music isn't ridiculous on so many levels. YOU are. I don't know if you realize this, but you just insulted the composer by saying this bullshit.
It is indeed terrifying. Much like the terrible world we are living in. The piano was not destroyed for nothing; it was essential to realize this staggering and bizarrely beautiful work.
Did you watch and did you listen to the Concert in full?
@@jesperlutzhft7197 Does one have to listen to it full to know that it's totally shit? Even if there was one good moment in it, it wouldn't make it a good piece. And why should it be watched? Is the piece musically so dead that it needs video to make it even a bit more bearable?
@@tomfurgas2844 Pieces like this are one of the things that make our world terrible. There's a lot of beauty in the world we live in. Just because you want to pretend to care about the horrors of our world, doesn't justify you making it even worse.
This is an offense to any artist who has ever lived. This is reducing the concept of art to the literal bare minimun. The fact that the word 'music' is applied to both Beethoven and this almost-literal feces is unnaceptable.
Who hurt u omg...
@@jelanisurpriscomposer You must be mistaking me for someone who asked for your reply.
@Henri.d.Olivoir Yes, you are so right, sir! My apologies, sir! I thought you were the rare wizard, Atrateragon, who humbly asked for my opinion an approximate 2000 years ago! Yes, this piece represents all that is wrong with the world, huh? These mortals think they can compose like the great Beethoven. Should I remind you, he was a level 3000 Wizard! We must not waste our energies on those who prefer this unholy music.... If only the great Diamond Level Wizard Chopin was here to witness this atrocity. Or perhaps Wagner could set them straight, huh! Good day to you, my boy!
@@jelanisurpriscomposer We finally agree on something, it seems...
@@ario2264 Finally someone with good sense 🙏