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Composed in 1995, Recorded in 1996
Performed by the Bang on a Can Allstars. From the CD "Cheating, Lying, Stealing"
I wrote The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory shortly after moving to New York. I was thinking of my grandmother, who had moved to New York from Poland 70 years earlier, and had worked in sweatshops and factories. This piece was a turning point for me professionally and artistically: I revised & notated the piece for The Bang on a Can Allstars, using techniques that I had developed while working with my own band, and adapted these ideas in a collaborative context with classically trained musicians. As to the title, "The Manufacture" refers to my grandmother's factory days, "Tangled" describes the detuning of the piano sounds and their displacement on the keyboard, and "Ivory" refers to the piano keys themselves. I used a sampler (an instrument similar to a digital tape recorder connected to a piano keyboard) to reproduce piano and prepared piano sounds and to alter their pitch, duration, and timbre. The sampled sounds vary in density and change within the piece from multiple layers of detuned piano sounds, for example, to a single piano harmonic or a lone snap of the sustain pedal. The piece incorporates some elements of improvisation, including solos for the guitar and bass. 

The Manufacture Of Tangled Ivory II (BOAC)

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Whirling In Baroque Romance

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Trying New Ways

163 honeycomb/kb

Draggin’ Ass

The Ghost of Thelonious Monk

Bill Evans - My Funny Valentine

Guillaume Dufay - Motets – Noël Akchoté  
GDFMO-003 (Noël Akchoté Downloads, Album, Believe Digital, 2019).

Noël Akchoté : Dobro (Resonator Guitar), Arranged By 

Recorded in Saint-Gildas de Rhuys (France), March 2019. GDFMO-003 © Noël Akchoté Downloads 2019 (All Rights Reserved).

Dufay – Salve flos tusce

Guillaume Dufay - Hymns – Noël Akchoté  
– GDFH-001 (Noël Akchoté Downloads, Album, Believe Digital, 2019).

Noël Akchoté : Dobro (Resonator Guitar), Arranged By 

03 – In Festo Ss. Petri et Pauli : Aurea luce et decore roseo

Recorded in Saint-Gildas de Rhuys (France), March 2019. Produced by Noël Akchoté – GDFH-001 © Noël Akchoté Downloads 2019 (All Rights Reserved).

Dufay - In Festo Ss. Petri et Pauli - Aurea luce et decore roseo

Београд (Antwerp/Cover) Teaser - Noël Akchoté
https://noelakchote.bandcamp.com/album/antwerp-cover 

Noël Akchoté : Nylon Strings & Electric Guitars, arranged by

Recorded by Christophe Albertijn, at “The Rabbit Field Studio” in Antwerp (Belgium), the 26.11.2019. Mixed & Mastered by Christophe Albertijn. Artwork & Layout by Noël Akchoté. Written by SebastiAn (Because)(Copyright Controlled). Produced by Noël Akchoté - SNAA-007 © Noël Akchoté Downloads 2019 (All Rights Reserved).

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