A short offering freshly created for the Piano Day 2017 playlist.  Here I'm just playing around with an ebow, rubber balls, strumming and Ableton delays.  It's not professionally mixed but I hope it gives a sense of what's possible on my beautiful restructured Erard in the picture here.  I call it my 'Inside-Out Piano' and I made it so I could reach the amazing sounds that playing directly on the strings can achieve.  Please see more at www.sarahnicolls.com.  Thanks for listening!

SARAH NICOLLS - RADIAL - Piano Day 2017

A draft for a gig at Daylight Music on March 31st 2018. By hitting the piano bass strings with a soft timpani mallet, you get a drone with loads of overtones.  It makes me want to sing, so I did...  *ALL THE OTHER SOUNDS ARE MADE ONLY USING THE INSIDE OF THE PIANO*

DAYLIGHT DRONE 24 Feb

Fran tells Lara all about her recent Maldives trip.

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MY AMAZING HOLIDAY

5 Sadness Melts (Piano Day 2017 ACOUSTIC)

Charlotte du Cann reading her own writing 'Varanasi' published in Dark Mountain Issue 14 Terra, 2018: https://dark-mountain.net/dark-mountain-issue-14-terra/

Charlotte Du Cann Reading Her Own Writing - Varanasi

Featuring excerpts from three of Greta's speeches (Tedx, Davos and the UN 2019, with her permission), this track features in my 12 Years recital-story, touring the UK in 2020.

Dead Safe 2020 feat. Greta Thunberg

The last track of my 12 years recital-story, touring the UK in 2020.  See sarahnicolls.com/the-musical-activist for more details and to book.

I find it hard to be hopeful but

This extracts track is an audio trailer to introduce you to the characters as they phone each other, living as we are all doing through this emergency - hearing and responding to the news and what other family members are doing or thinking about it.  As with any family, there's big contrasts between how Fran and her sister Lara are taking the news and Aidan meanwhile just wants to reassure and stop the panic.

Fran and Aidan on the phone: extracts

Inside-Out Piano percussion and recordings of real-life survivors escaping the wildfire in Paradise, California, 2018.

Fire Extract

An extract from Greenland Ice Melting, one of the longest tracks in my 12 Years recital, touring the UK in 2020.  I'm using buts, bolts, magnets and a plectrum to make these atmospheric glacier sounds on my Inside-Out Piano.

Ice Extract

The opening track of my '12 Years' show - just me playing the piano and saying 12 years over and over: how I felt on hearing the original IPCC news that we had that amount of time to prevent runaway global warming.  See https://www.sounduk.net/events/12-years-sarah-nicolls/ for all tour dates.

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