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A 1000 KEYS

by Thomas Brinkmann

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1.
PSA 03:12
2.
LHR 05:48
3.
SYD 04:36
4.
VIE 06:58
5.
JFK 05:50
6.
KGD 07:24
7.
TLV 03:26
8.
TBS 03:24
9.
SFO 00:45
10.
MEX 03:27
11.
HEL 00:44
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CGN 03:35
13.
LAS 08:12
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YWG 04:37
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LED 02:17
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NRT 03:59
17.
MAD 05:52
18.
KIX 01:27

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PLEASE NOTE: LHR, YWG & MAD do not appear on the vinyl edition but are included on the download version

Dedicated to Conlon Nancarrow
Design: 林寬祐  / Thomas Brinkmann / David Hilbert

"How many can get a personal sound out of a fucking piano?!" Lee Konitz.

Thomas Brinkmann takes his seductive reductionism to the next level. »A 1000 KEYS« is a harsh meditation on the expressive qualities of digital sound production. In translating the timbre of a grande piano into binary codes, thus rebuilding its corpus with 0 and 1s, Brinkmann subverts the sensual qualities of this proto-romantic instrument in a sardonic way. Replacing the musician with a mathematically precise series of frenetic repetition and intriguingly dissonant difference, the result sounds at times like a violent ride through the brains of Schönberg or Webern, drained in amphetamines, at others like Feldman's ephemeral sketches or Russolo's futurist outburst.

Brinkmann's conceptual framework is resonating in the track titles. Using shortcuts of international airports, he refers to non-places that establish their own space-and-time continuum, while lacking individual identity and history. These functional scenarios are sterile passages for anonymous, objectified masses, at the same time there's hardly a better place to grasp the very subjective character of time.

»A 1000 KEYS« is a fatal homage to minimalism and a consequent denial of virtuosity and the idea of creative genius. Paraphrasing the romantic idea of human perfection, Brinkmann found a way to create sonic algorithms of tenderness and brutality, establishing dramatic expressiveness in his constructivist analytics. The result is of radical beauty.

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released September 2, 2016

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