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The BBC discovers the strange sonic world of pianist-composer Lubomyr Melnyk

By John Terauds on January 30, 2012

Ukrainian-born composer-pianist Lubomyr Melnyk has spent much of his adult life playing and promoting a form of pattern music he calls “continuous music.” It relies on ultra-fast repetition to creates waves and washes of sound in a sort of mass-resonance effect.

Or, as Melnyk explains it:

This required a new and very specialised technique for the piano — where the 2 hands became independent entities that could sustain incongruous note-patterns — where the Left and Right side create various “currents” that combine into one beautiful “river” of sound — perfectly balanced on the Apex of the triangular Apportment, with its Left point, its Right point, and the Central Motor of the “Third Eye”.

The BBC has just discovered him, unfortunately no longer as nimble as he used to be, on this little news clip.

Here is Melnyk in the Great Hall of Hart House, in Toronto, in 1985:

http://youtu.be/Sm8LJSfIJJs

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