rummaging around on Tube, I 'discovered' an interesting pianist: HAUSCHKA. has anyone ever heard of him?
this is one of many videos
he seems like a great experimenter to me. it seems like a genre that is difficult to define, at times perhaps drawing directly from the cornerstones of American minimalism (cf. Philip Glass), other times approaching shamelessly
jazz-pop-rock, and other times some passages seemed quite 'learned' to me. in addition, he makes clever, conscious, intelligent, expressive, and functional use of piano sound amplification, sometimes by exploiting a loop station and also by expressively using the distortions, triggers, reverbs, and resonances that, directly and/or indirectly, result from it. in short.. it seems to me that he has the right requirements to be considered the "missing link" of post-Cageian pianism. what do you all say?
It conveyed a bit of boredom to me. It was physiological, I am not a lover of minimalist aesthetics... halfway through I threw in the towel.
Conceptually your idea could work, although from what I hear around, there is an attempt to reconstruct the relationship between the composer and the listener's perceptual sphere.
I think the post-minimalism era is already outdated by now... you might say, already? The life of a composer is short...
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ScalaQuaranta wrote:
in short.. it seems to me that he has the right requirements to be considered the "missing link" of post-Cageian pianism. what do you all say?
A statement that seems quite bold to me, I don't feel comfortable writing it among the greats. It is always difficult to evaluate contemporaneity, he certainly has his originality ...
Well.... it sounds a bit like a bluff to me.... and besides, on those rhythm games he's not in time, he's lagging behind the beat...... listen to the double bassist Avishai Cohen and his groove, three phenomena all very young....
