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Piano Diary (1995) Michael Longton
Piano Diary began as an exercise in self discipline: In an effort to overcome my native shiftlessness I undertook to commit one fragment—no matter how brief—to paper each day. As this collection grew, I decided to impose on it a simple but rigid structure. Each idea would be required to recur, first two days later, then three days after that, then four, then five, etc. In this way, ideas accumulate, collide, and interact with each other, yet at the same time everything eventually fades, is forgotten. The result is, that while there is a great deal of repetition in the piece, it is more about forgetting than remembering. But it’s also the work of an ex-pianist, full of nostalgia for the great days of the piano and always on the lookout for something that can be rescued. —Michael Longton

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from thethingsinbetween : works by Alvin Curran, Michael Finnissy, Michael Longton, Stephen Parkinson and Linda Catlin Smith, released October 10, 1999
Composer: Michael Longton

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