Listening Corner
(click on a track title to listen to MP3 audio)
Starfish electronic piece made from windchime samples by Phyllis Chen
Franz Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata #43 in Ab Major Allegro (1st movt.)
Maurice Ravel La Valse
Beethoven Piano Concerto #1 in C Major 2nd Movement Adagio
Stephen Montague Tarantella for toy piano Mirabella
Julia Wolfe East Broadway for toy piano and toy boombox
Portrait for toy piano, microphone, computer and quadraphonic speaker array
Composed by Jeff Morris in 2005 and inspired by the composer Conlon Nancarrow, Portrait uses the antiquated technique of imitation, in which a single musical voice is copied and recombined with itself. The imitation, created through digital sampling and delay lines, presents a portrait of the instrument, extended and fractured through space and time.
Exposiciones for toy piano and tape
Written by Andrian Pertout as an homage to composer Frank Zappa, It was originally written for Microtonal Sampled Schoenhut toy piano and was revised for toy piano and tape for Phyllis.
Janácek Violin Sonata
Zsolt Eder: violin
Video Corner
The Memoirist, a multimedia piece written by Phyllis Chen in the Spring, 2007. This is the premiere performance at SoFA Gallery,Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
(Quicktime Movie - 18min, 49Mb)
Karlheinz Essl Kalimba for toy piano and CD. Performance at Gaudeamus Contemporary Music Interpreters Competition, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
(Quicktime Movie - 5min, 44Mb)
