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Sebastian Lexer
The computerised augmentation of the acoustic piano, the piano+, has developed from a combination of conventional and extended playing techniques, prepared piano and electronic real-time modifications of its sounds. The interest in free improvisation, the motivation to work with sounds by exploring their contingent qualities in timbre, dynamic and microstructures, has inspired a different mode of interaction with the technology, allowing a very close relationship between acoustic instrument and electronic modifications. The performance is a journey through the instrumental space in which new relationships between performer and technology emerge from the sonic sculptures found in between the acoustic and the electronic while retaining a fundamental pianism.
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Sebastian Lexer + Steve Noble: Muddy Ditch
by John Eyles
In a similar manner to the simultaneous Fataka release by Evan Parker and Seymour Wright, Muddy Ditch successfully pairs a long-established member of the London improv scene with a player who emerged from Eddie Prevost's weekly workshop --drummer Steve Noble and pianist Sebastian Lexer, respectively. But in Noble and Lexer's cases, the descriptions drummer" and pianist" are barely adequate, only scratching the surface of what each of them does. While Noble's awesome power always ensures he is a ...
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