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1.
Aviary 03:58
2.
A Change in Atmosphere 03:58
3.
Telling Stories 01:46
4.
The Blazing Sun 03:09
5.
Searching for Something 02:01
6.
The Mother (Three Conversations) 04:04
7.
The Librarian (Three Conversations) 04:04
8.
The Supporter (Three Conversations) 03:21
9.
Night Machinery 02:13
10.
A Seemingly Simple Thing 03:21
11.
Vague Impressions of a Room 01:44
12.
Turbulence 01:42
13.
Coyote 04:23
14.
Returning 04:37

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Aviary is performed primarily on felt piano, modular synthesizers, violin and cello. It considers the perception of borders, limitations and belief systems. Throughout the album there are arising distortions; distortions of rhythm, of tone and of melody. Things play together, but then.. they don’t. It’s a quiet and contemplative work. As the pianist/improvisor John Tilbury has said of playing quietly “The softness transcends the instrument and draws the audience into the music - it encourages attentiveness and alertness. It demands a ‘transcendental’ listening in its search for the ‘revelatory experience’.” Throughout Aviary, electronic improvisations - either with modular synthesizers, Max MSP, or the Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter 2 - combine with pieces composed at the acoustic piano. Two completely different creative processes are merged together. The former more like painting, and the later like crafting a narrative. The result is a sequence of pieces that affect the listener like dream images or fragments of subconscious narrative.

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released March 1, 2024

Peter Adams - piano, modular synthesizers, glockenspiel, Prophet 6, Max MSP, Plumbutter 2

Connor Vance - violin
Ginger Murphy - cello

Noah Hoffeld - additional cello on Three Conversations

painting by Peter Adams

released March 2024

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