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Is it the piano preparation or the playing technique?
Whatever, Margaret Leng Tan's recording of John Cage's Bacchanale is an excellent hybrid between percussion and piano; muffled, damped, rhythmic and yet playful. Intended for percussion, it was Cage's first work for prepared piano.
New Sounds has a Real excerpt although John Schafer talks over it in his introduction to a show dedicated to Cage. Here's an MP3 (via johncage.info and UCLA) of Stephen Drury's recording.
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Do you have your web set up so that people can listen to the songs they are trying to find?
Posted by: Camille | April 18, 2005 at 09:55 PM
No, unfortunately, I don't own the digital rights to be able to post the music on this blog.
Posted by: Robert Gable | April 22, 2005 at 10:04 PM