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Purcell Room

The Fluid Piano Launch

Saturday 27 March 2010

/Introducing the 'fluid piano' image

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27 March 2010, 7:45pm

Geoff Smith composer, performer, inventor
Matthew Bourne pianist, composer
Pam Chowhan pianist, composer
Nikki Yeoh pianist, composer
Ramin Zoufonoun piano

Imagine an acoustic piano that is no longer restricted to 'western tuning'. A 'multi-cultural' piano with an immense diversity of bespoke tuning layouts and indigenous scales from around the world (e.g. from Middle Eastern cultures).
A piano that enables musicians to experiment by altering each note separately by precise microtonal intervals, that even allows you to alter the tuning whilst playing - or simply to remain in the standard 'Western' tuning should you wish.

Invented by Geoff Smith, The Fluid Piano is all these things and this special event features world premieres of compositions for the piano composed and performed by Smith (who will also be using the Fluid Dulcimer) and composers/pianists Matthew Bourne, Pam Chowhan, Nikki Yeoh plus a special guest performance by Iranian pianist Ramin Zoufonoun.

'The musical equivalent of splitting the atom.' (The Guardian)

Related Links
Read more about the Fluid Dulcimer
Read more about Matthew Bourne
Read more about Pam Chowhan
Read more about Nikki Yeoh

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27 March 2010, 7:45pm

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