PREPARED PIANO

Prepared piano is a technique in which various objects are placed on or between the piano strings to alter its usual sound.

Often unfamiliar to the traditional concert piano, these objects affect the instrument’s sound in various degrees—modifying pitch, duration, attack, and most notably, timbre.

“To decolonize the piano, this icon of European classical music, to enchant it with objects foreign to its routine, to go beyond the keys, to touch its inner body, to see it as a multiple sound-object that calls upon many territories...”

"...coins, clothespins, wires and strings, magnets and small stones, bolts and screws... found objects of all kinds, from which one can extract threads of sound and imagination, giving them new stories, making them resonate. “Objects with poetic reaction,” as Le Corbusier once said—artfully intertwined with this great symbol of Western music to explore it, distort it, re-enchant it..."