Preview track for my upcoming album 'Companion' released for PianoDay 2021

Otto A. Totland - Days Before

String figures are a storytelling activity and an age old form of spiritual play. There are hundreds of them, from all over the world, often representing things from nature or day to day objects or activities. The long days of the Covid-19 pandemic UK lockdown and a bewildered mind led me to learning a number of them, picking at random for a welcome distraction. As the months went by and the lockdown continued, I began writing simple melodies to represent the simple, innocent and playful movements of two hands, a piece of string and the passing of time. There was so much uncertainty within the monotonous days and I think this also comes out in the pieces. 

My brilliant friends Mainly Two, a violin duo, recorded this collection of miniatures in the depths of the Black Forest in Germany 48°49'42.4"N 8°23’09.6”E. It had to be outside, everything had to be outside during that time, so you’ll also hear the soundscape of the forest, distant traffic and airplanes that surrounded them.

String Figures

Butterflies

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Solo Piano.  Created in Real-Time at the Midwest Music Conservatory, St. Louis MO.

Year od Muaic XIV

Year of Music: August 25, 2025

tenerife sea (lovely & beautiful piano)

When Winter Came

Una Mattina - Piotr Dedo (Ludivico Einaudi)

The Biber Project is a live performance in which the interpretation and recreation of the Baroque repertoire merge with sonic experimentation and interaction.

The musical studio is a broad-spectrum cognitive pathway that through interpretations, new readings, audio manipulations, original and recomposed tracks, investigates the expressive canons of the seventeenth century.
The idea was born when the soundtrack was written for the Ginevra Napoleoni's installation named "Pieghe". Following the performance requirements, I revisited, on that occasion, the Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.
The assumptions were two well-defined axioms, set together: the baroque proportion of the forms seen in its inter-penetration between the parts and the material singularity of the fragments that assume, in a macroscopic view, their autonomous architectural identity.
The Biber Project seeks its DNA in this geometric reconstruction that follows the numeric proportions of the Golden Section. A sort of great instrumental suite, a unique act that flows into a continuous stream of experimentation and formal purism in an articulate sound vision half-way between the recital and the live musical direction.

Tracklist

Johann Sebastian Bach
Preludio in Do Maggiore dal Clavicembalo Ben Temperato , Vol.1
(live)

Luca Longobardi
Jeudi  (original composition, live)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Sonata del Rosario n.1 - L’Annunciazione
(mechanical + sound manipulation)

Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in Do# minore K.247
(live)

Luca Longobardi
Mutazione #1 (original composition, live)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Preludio in Fa Minore dal Clavicembalo Ben Temperato , Vol.1
(recomposed, live))

Vivaldi - Richter
La Primavera
(mechanical + live)

Georg Friedrich Händel
Sarabande
(recomposed, mechanical + live)

Una Mattina - Piotr Dedo (Ludivico Einaudi)

Piotr Dedo

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