Dreamcore

EP released in celebration of Piano Day 2019.
Bandcamp: derekhunterwilson.bandcamp.com/album/memory-invention
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/memory-invention-ep/1457601154
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2EhDVNazQyihVcjegMIspz
Amazon: amazon.com/Memory-Invention-Derek-Hunter-Wilson/dp/B07PWYPXQ9/

Composition Notes:
Over the past year I've been listening a lot and learning how to play music by Bach. My piece "Memory Invention" takes a similar progression as some of his keyboard works and adds strings to it. The two alternate versions couple this with the idea of how what we remember about an event changes and can even deteriorate over time.

Abstraktes #7 continues my series of solo piano music exploring the line between improvisation and composition.
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Piano and Cello - Derek Hunter Wilson
Viola - Mirabai Peart

Recorded at Type Foundry, Portland, OR

Engineering, Mixing, and Mastering by Jason Powers

Memory Invention EP

Matti Bye – Bethanien (TS10)

ABOUT:
It began in 2010. If you were anywhere near Oranienstraße, you may have heard it as it traveled through the hallways of a Kreuzberg artist residence once used as a hospital, as it passed you by and continued across the canal, along the piers. The sound of Matti Bye carefully pressing the keys of an old grand piano. Its singing tones taking flight for all of Kreuzberg to hear. Illuminated by the stars of a clear winter sky. Illuminated by the beams of a scorching summer sun. Kreuzberg wasn't always like this.

In 1847, Kreuzberg's Bethanien hospital opened its doors to the public. If you didn't know better, you may have gone there for medical treatment. If you didn't know better, that is. Most did. If the sight of the makeshift, outdoor operating tables didn't change your mind, maybe a perfectly rational fear of infection did. If you still, despite even the notion of contracting some new disease, chose to enter, being denied treatment was still a possible out. Not because you weren't in need, but rather to teach you a lesson. A lesson of patience. Bethanien hospital was not one of repute.

In an otherwise war-torn Berlin, Bethanien was somehow spared. This, however, did little to improve its reputation. By the 1970s, the hospital yard had been taken over by squatters. The hospital itself was no longer in use and, in time, it developed into an artist residence.

It ended in 2013. Finally, the sound of Matti Bye playing his grand piano was captured. Gently accompanied by layers of shimmering, soaring soundscapes. Produced and tastefully engineered in the Wiener Futurismo studio by Joel Danell. The result is soulful, haunting and melodic. Matti Bye's Bethanien takes you, the listener, on a lyrical journey into the world of dreams and illusions.

Bethanien

Buy 12" vinyl

Matti Bye - The Piano Ship

Bandcamp: derekhunterwilson.bandcamp.com/album/abstraktes-vol-1
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7xtTdQZlcEdkBKCO8Rg2D7
iTunes: music.apple.com/us/album/abstraktes-vol-1-ep/1503041634
Amazon: amazon.com/Abstraktes-Vol-Derek-Hunter-Wilson/dp/B085ZCKCVR

Recorded in celebration of Nils Frahm's #PianoDay. This is part of an EP of improvised pieces recorded during a recording session in Feb '16 at Type Foundry Studios in Portland, OR by Jason Powers who also mixed and mastered these recordings.

Read more about Piano Day: www.pianoday.org/

Abstraktes #4

Think of it as a walking embrace. Two people stepping as one would step.

Molnbär av John - Untitled Sketch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

February 2019 Recording Session Rough Mixes

Memory Invention

Memory Invention (Screwed)

Memory Invention (Decayed)

Abstraktes #7

Matti Bye – Faro (Original Score)
Format: CD/LP/DL
Release date: 2013
Label: Rotor

Thoughts (from Faro)

Molnbär av John - Kaikki Loppunu

Released June on IIIW as a split 7" vinyl with Milan Warmoeskerken.

Constructed by John Henriksson
Recorded at Rue Jean Jaques Rousseau
Mixed by Joel Danell
Artwork by Joke Leonare & Yana Foké 
Photo by Sami Trabelsi

Track list:
1. Kaikki Loppunu (1)
2. Kaikki Loppunu (2)
3. Kaikki Loppunu (3)
4. Kaikki Loppunu (4)

THE END

Molnbär av John - Kaikki Loppunu

Derek Hunter Wilson is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Portland, OR. 