{"id":1151,"date":"2012-01-30T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:11:34","slug":"the-bbc-discovers-the-strange-sonic-world-of-pianist-composer-lubomyr-melnyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/01\/30\/the-bbc-discovers-the-strange-sonic-world-of-pianist-composer-lubomyr-melnyk\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC discovers the strange sonic world of pianist-composer Lubomyr Melnyk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian-born composer-pianist Lubomyr Melnyk<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Or, as Melnyk explains it:<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The BBC has just discovered him, unfortunately no longer as nimble as he used to be, on this little news clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is Melnyk in the Great Hall of Hart House, in Toronto, in 1985:<\/p>\n