Improvised Set for Subcity Radio 1/5/23

Georgios Kypridemos - Piano
Chrisni Mendis - Voice

Ravel - Chanson de la mariée

John Cage - In a Landscape

Toru Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketch no. 1

Gregor Forbes - Piano Pieces 1&2 (2015)

Copland Piano Sonata - Movement 1

Copland Piano Sonata - Movement 2

Copland Sonata - Movement 3

A. Copland - Night Thoughts

Erik Chisholm - Sonatina No 3

'Improvisations on Time' is a set of 3 improvisations performed live by Georgios Kypridemos on piano, with extended techniques, and Taner Kemirtlek on various instruments including singing bowls, tuning forks and melodica. 

They are centred around 3 literary stimuli:

1. 'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come’ - from ‘The Order of Time’, by Carlo Rovelli  

2. ‘It is easy to hold  what is still stable  It is easy to mould what  is not yet formed /   It is easy to shatter what is still fragile.  / It is easy to scatter   what is yet light and small.   / Therefore, act now rather than wait. Get things done before it’s too late.’ from Timing, by Lao Tzu, Tao the Ching

3.  ‘For so long she had felt not human, yet had been unable to move towards an alternative species; now the solution had been found for her; she was a migratory bird; warbler, wagtail, yellowhammer? cuckoo shrike, bobolink, skua? albatross, orange bishop, godwit?   / “…and from their haunted bay The godwits vanish towards another summer.”’ from ‘Towards another summer’ by Janet Frame

'Improvisation on Time' mv 3

'Improvisations on Time' mv. 2

'Improvisations on Time' mv. 1

Pianist, Improviser & Researcher based in Scotland.

George Kypridemos

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