FANTASTiC | 05 April 2022 | 674 MB
我们大多数人都知道碳纤维是现代超级金属，重量轻、强度高，可用于各种应用，如高端自行车、汽车和航空。但在纽约市郊一家尘土飞扬的钢琴工厂的顶层，却坐落着世界上唯一一架由碳纤维制成的钢琴。传统钢琴一直在努力权衡，要么敏感但太安静而无法填满整个大厅，要么有投影但失去了一些细微差别和美感。
这款独特的 Bogyani 钢琴克服了这种折衷。虽然在结构上类似于传统的分层云杉音板，但碳纤维使钢琴更坚固更薄，有助于产生和发出美丽多彩的声音，更强大，更灵敏，增加了一位艺术家可以表达的范围。
这种独一无二的乐器是为一位名叫 Serene 的世界级音乐家设计的原型，他是一位来自最意想不到的轨迹的音乐会钢琴家。此前，Serene 是一名 Google 工程师和研究员，尽管从未上过音乐学院，但现在她与世界各地的管弦乐队一起演出和巡回演出。
在她的多类型项目中，她喜欢合作，例如为 Kanye West 的歌剧院创作作品、在林肯中心首演、在巴塞尔艺术展上表演，以及与 Blue Man Group 的创始人一起担任钢琴家和技术专家。在她所有的音乐事业中，Serene 专注于在音乐和技术的交汇处带来未来主义的创新，同时也突出了她自己的联觉。她培养了一种独特的、有纪律的、精神上的钢琴方法，再加上她在许多学科的交叉领域，已经培养了一批国际追随者。
Splice 用 AEA R88 立体声带状麦克风进行了为期三天的 Serene 录音，演奏、弹拨、敲击和录制了这种乐器野兽的每一个可能方面。我们使用钢琴弦、锤子、制音器、钢琴盖，当然还有键盘，创作了无数的旋律和歌曲开头。 Serene 的演奏将听众带入了一个新的维度，不受流派、节奏或任何形式的僵化的限制，Splice 制作团队将她的天才重新加工成数十个制作就绪的循环。
Splice 探索：Carbon Piano 是一个精美的高品质钢琴合集，您有机会使用真正独特的乐器，并为您的下一首曲目增添超凡脱俗的音乐性。
Serene 是一位贝森朵夫艺术家，您可以在@serenepianist 关注她的钢琴冒险。
•94 一次拍摄
•137 个循环
Most of us know carbon fiber as the modern super-metal that is lightweight, strong, and used in all sorts of applications such as high-end bikes, cars, and aeronautics. But on the top floor of a dusty piano factory outside of New York City there sits one of the world’s only piano’s made out of carbon fiber. Traditional pianos have struggled with the tradeoff of either being sensitive but too quiet to fill a hall, or having projection but losing some of their nuance and beauty.
This unique Bogyani piano overcomes this tradeoff. While structurally similar to a traditional layered spruce soundboard, carbon fiber makes the piano both stronger and thinner helping to produce and project beautiful and colorful sounds both far more powerfully, yet also far more sensitively, increasing the range of what one artist can express.
This one-of-a-kind instrument is a prototype designed for a world class musician named Serene, who is a concert pianist from a most unexpected trajectory. Previously Serene was a Google engineer and researcher, now she performs and tours with orchestras around the world, despite having never attended conservatory.
Amongst her multi-genre projects, she has enjoyed collaborations such as creating composition for Kanye West’s Opera, premiering at The Lincoln Center, performing at Art Basel, and featuring as pianist and technologist with Blue Man Group’s founder. Across all of her musical endeavors, Serene is focused on bringing futuristic innovations at the intersection of music and technology while also highlighting her own synesthesia. She has cultivated a unique, disciplined, spiritual approach to the piano, which combined with her intersections of many disciplines, has grown an international following.
Splice spent three days with Serene recording with an AEA R88 stereo ribbon microphone playing, plucking, hitting, and recording every possible aspect of this beast of an instrument. We created countless melodies and song starters using the piano strings, the hammers, the damper, the piano lid, and of course the keyboard. Serene’s playing takes the listener into a new dimension not bound to genre, tempo, or any form of rigidity and the Splice production team re-worked her genius into dozens of production ready loops.
Splice Explores: Carbon Piano is a beautiful collection of high-quality piano, your chance to access a truly unique instrument, and add a profound otherworldly musicality into your next track.
Serene is a Bösendorfer Artist and you can follow her piano adventures at @serenepianist.
•94 one shots
•137 loops
