Jacques Demierre, Martina Brodbeck

"A recording of a piano tuning session was the starting point for a series of different pieces, all of which question the experience of measurement. These two pieces, "about a thousand years" and "a falling sound", for piano and cello, are a new stage in this process. If the music results from a work of measurement - that of the piano as a territory and of its different acoustic regions, both the voice of Pandit Prân Nath, which gave rise to the playing and scordatura of the cello, and the bass of one of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's pianos, used for this recording, were other equally determining influences." - Jacques Demierre

Music composed by Jacques Demierre (SUISA) in collaboration with Martina Brodbeck
The titles are taken from haïku by Matsuo Basho in “Basho: The Complete Haiku”, Kodansha International.