’Macronectes' is a piece for prepared piano. It exists in two versions. One is for 2 hands, the other one for 4 hands. Both versions only uses one grand piano.
2 hands version A fight to conquer the big instrument and explore its secrets.
4 hands version Almost like dancing, They move, stretch around the impressive instrument.
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Through a cooperation with the instrument builder Johan E. Andersson (Kapellet) in 2016, there is now a new version of this piece that is more flexible. In the old version, the construction of the grand piano needed to fit the balls used. In the newer version, a mobile steel construction to fit the balls can be put in the piano. The sound can therefor be created without a perfect piano at the concert hall. To borrow these steel constructions, just contact the composerThis original image could not be retrieved from the archive. The 1st musician to use this new equipment at a concert is Anna Christensson, a Swedish pianist, who performed the piece at the festival Sound of Stockholm in November 2016.
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Material to download:
2 hands version:
Score Recording (from concert in November -16 using the new equipment; Anna Christensson)
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4 hands version:
Score Recording (from concert in March -10; Neel Teilmann & Manuel Esperilla)
Listen: Nr 28 (Macronectes)
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Live performance with the pianist Lluïsa Espigolé from the Spanish ensemble Crossing Lines playing the two-hand-version of the piece on the 4/11 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden, during the festival Sound of Stockholm.