Music for solo piano.

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Man on Wire

In Time

Quarto Tempo

Oceano

train to elsewhere

3 rd final sketch of my 8 piano project, where I am going to record 8 piano pieces on 8 different pianos all over europe in summer 2015

Dirk Maassen - Zenith

Boulder

Somewhere v2

MATHILDE

Moderna Records is celebrating Record Store Day 2017 with the release of its very first vinyl in partnership with Return To Analog : Montreal neo-classical composer TAMBOUR’s Chapitres. 

BUY / 12" VINYL : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/chapitres-vinyl-edition

This collection presents a selection of tracks from TAMBOUR (aka Simon P. Castonguay)’s acclaimed EPs Chapitre I (2015) and Chapitre II (2016), here reunited under a single banner and pressed on limited-edition high quality vinyl with brand new artwork by Marie-Pier Meilleur. 

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The Nude & The Quiet
from Chapitre I EP [2015] 
Composed and produced by Simon P. Castonguay 

Recorded by Benoît Parent 
Mixed by Pierre Duchesne 
Mastering by Pierre Duchesne 

Piano/Tonal percussions - Simon P. Castonguay 
Violon I - Rose Frappier 
Violon II - Audrée Leduc 
Alto - Mélanie Venditti 
Cello - Eugénie Lalonde

Chapitres

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Tambour - The Nude & The Quiet (Vinyl Edition)

Through sound, emotion seeks new dimensions, not as an escape from reality but rather in a search for the image of a new reality. Music that creates emotion, is like a wind that purifies, rendering visible all the obstacles and divisions. It is rather like a piercing arrow that alerts the parts of our mind we do not normally go to, in our daily lives. It opens up unknown and obscure landscapes, like a ray of light that filtering into a dark room, banishes the darkness and leaves nothing to hinder vision. 
”Canone degli Spazi” is about the sound that journeys in all directions, the sound that travels through endless space - through the outer world and the inner space - through the unconscious and the senses. 
When I play with precision and with specific intent, the emotion that rises inside of me is the mirror of the one that arises in the person who is listening - it provokes a sense of union and communion with those sharing the same moment. Music becomes a vehicle of an objective feeling, which is almost the same for most people. Similarly, if I am not One with the sound and my intention is not clear, the same notes played carelessly are empty - they lose their power and their intensity. The level of clarity of my expression depends on what I can make arise inside of me. When that happens, the inner nature of the melodies that are being played spreads out into space, into the air, into the earth and out to the whole atmosphere. A real spell takes place between the performer and his public, creating a magical aura of deep harmony and sharing. This is the wonder of a sound that has come from a long time ago, through myths and mythology, and returns us to the essence of Music, that most supreme of Arts. 
I composed “Canone degli Spazi” around essential elements - the harmony of the triads, the melodic repetition and the cycles that follow the orbits of the planets and the structure of harmonics - the very same fundamental rules that Pythagoras followed to make the laws of the Universe coincide. Sound can help us to realize that our inner space is as vast as our outer space and that in reality there is no difference between them. Sound travels through walls - the walls of the mind too – transcending both time and space. 

Canone degli spazi - Michael

Piano Works is the second installment of Lucy Claire’s ‘Works’ series. It is an eclectic take on what piano music can be. Featuring cellist Ren Ford (Keaton Henson’s Romantic Works) and violinist Marie Schreer (The Royal Northern Sinfonia) and surrounded in atmospheric binaural soundscapes, the piano is far from lonely. The work features a collection of pianos from grands and uprights, to electric keyboards, toy and thumb pianos. It is grounded in the real world but hints strongly at the magical and supernatural, it absorbs, transports, then delivers you back to reality with new perspective.

In Time

Steven Gutheinz