Dr. Gradus Vs. Rev. Powell

Gary Lloyd Noland performs his VIENNESE NIGHTMARE RAG for piano, Op. 4. This is from a home-made cassette recording with the composer playing on the Baldwin Hamilton upright piano he grew up with. This piece was composed in 1978 and published in the composer's own manuscript in 1985. Copies of the original published version of this rag may be purchased on request. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VIENNESE NIGHTMARE RAG for piano, Op. 4 (1978)

"like sugar in coffee...everything dissolves"
[this piece is meant to recreate that distinct sensation]

"sweet particles" explores how sugar and seemingly everything else in life begins solid and concrete and over the course of time fractures, dissolves and dissipates.

CREDITS
from Mundane (works for piano), releases March 24, 2023
sweet particles - recorded by: Yifei Xu

All tracks mixed and mastered by: Tyler Bisson

sweet particles (2021) - for solo piano

PEOPLE'S PARK CONCERTO for piano & electronics by Gary Lloyd Noland; Gary Lloyd Noland, piano (May 17th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

PEOPLE'S PARK CONCERTO for piano & electronics, Op. 145; Gary Lloyd Noland, piano

Piano Sonata. Movement I.
Composed by Nick Hunter. Performed and recorded by Nick Hunter at the Globe Theatre Palmerston North 2024. Mastered by Graham Kennedy.

Piano Sonata Movement I

Piano Sonata. Movement II.
Composed by Nick Hunter. Performed and recorded by Nick Hunter at the Globe Theatre Palmerston North 2024. Mastered by Graham Kennedy.

Piano Sonata Movement II

Piano Sonata. Movement III.
Composed by Nick Hunter. Performed and recorded by Nick Hunter at the Globe Theatre Palmerston North 2024. Mastered by Graham Kennedy.

Piano Sonata Movement III

Idol Spawn

This is a very raw recording of this morning brief piano meditation in which the piano surprised me. At first it lead me towards some dark low tones, which happens a lot. Towards the end, it guided me into much lighter, gentler sounds. I dedicate this very humble improvisation to the memory of one of my heroes, the great minimalist composer Julius Eastman.

My art happens at the boundary between visual and sonic expression or rather, inside that boundary. I recall improvising on the piano on the morning of my first live performance in New York, at Diapason gallery in 2002. The gallery, devoted to sound and media art, was founded by composer Michael J. Schumacher. The exhibition space had a beautiful grand piano.

The live performance was an immersion in water, which was filling my vessel-like sculpture, 'Ennoia'. My collaborator, sound artist Stephen Vitiello, inserted microphones into the water. One could hear sounds of the underwater breathing and the water being moved by my curled up body, slowly moving in a circular way. 

What was not known to the audience was that the immersion performance was very much fueled by my time alone with the piano earlier that day. The body of the piano and my body became vessels, meant to emit sound. 

Image: detail from "Inverted Explosions X", 2022

Piano Meditation July 3 2025

Marianne Gedigian and I playing a piece I wrote for her in 1997.

Dr. Gradus Vs. Rev. Powell

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