Nuits du Beau Tas::STEPHAN GINSBURGH "The Piano Hero" (Prins,Ligeti,Riley,Letort)

Piano Hero / Keyboard only

Stefan Prins - Piano Hero #1
(last performance before Darmstadt cycle premiere on July 30)
Enno Poppe - Arbeit for Hammond Organ
György Ligeti - Continuum
Terry Riley - Study for keyboard
Bruno Letort - New Piece for Fender Rhodes

Stephane Ginsburgh, keyboard

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Piano Hero
An immersive cycle for midi-keyboard, grand piano, live-cameras, video and live-electronics (2011-…)
"Immersion is the state of consciousness where an immersant's awareness of physical self is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment, often artificial. This mental state is frequently accompanied with spatial excess, intense focus, a distorted sense of time, and effortless action."
Source: Wikipedia (accessed 29/6/2011)
"If something startles the player out of immersion and into reality, out of illusion and into insight, then we have a moment of arrest remarkably similar to the instant when an antibody latches onto a virus. Suddenly, a shift in the system (immunological or ideological) occurs, and nothing remains the same."
Source: J.Blais, J.Ippolito, At the Edge of Art , Thames & Hudson, 2006 (p.58)