SoundPlay explores the idea of 'tuning' by placing the piano in dialogue with samples from a dilapidated upright piano. As sound objects these samples can be thought of as having a kind of 'found' tuning — as a result of neglect these unique sounds have emerged naturally and serendipitously over time. I have aimed to create musical tensions by bringing these sonorities together with those of the fixed equal tempered tuning of the 'true' piano — supported by digital transformations to bring out and enhance spectral qualities.

SoundPlay (2021)

John Fariselli Young