Zellen Linien

for piano and live-electronics
studio : Klang Projekte Weimar / 2007 /
commissioned by DAAD Berlin / first performance by Sebastian Berweck on June 9, 2007 at the TU Berlin / duration: 20 min

Zellen Linien uses all my research on prepared piano and live-electronics I undertook over the past years. I wanted to create an "electronically prepared" piano. There is no physical preparation on the instrument at all. Since 1999 I experimented with the real-time analysis of the instrumental gesture of the pianist and with possibilities to control the live-electronics through the gesture of the player. A first result was the composition "Das Bleierne Klavier". Since then many performances of that piece enriched my experience and led finally to this new work.

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The electronics are realized as an independent application and don't require a Max/MSP installation.

QuickTime Video:

Performance with Xenia Pestova, May 16, 2008, McGill University Montréal


technical requirements at the concert hall:


2 microphones (Neumann 184)
8-channel loudspeaker system sourrounding the public
1 stage monitor



The signal of both microphones will be used to amplify the piano through speakers 1 and 2. Both microphones are send through Aux 1 and 2 to my sound-card Hammerfall Multiface (symmetrical TRS-connectors).
The 8-channel output of my sound-card (8 symmetrical TRS) will be fed to the console for redistribution over the 8 loudspeakers

technic I can provide

laptop MacBook Pro
soundcard RME Hammerfall + HDSPe Express card
MIDI-sustain pedal
converter sustain-to-MIDI