FRANK STEMPER, COMPOSER
Klavierstück II (1993)
solo computerized piano [5 mins.]
Premiered 1 February 1995, Music From This Century – SIUC
Opus 32
Opus 32
NOTES
At some point trying to learn computer music software and hardware stopped being merely screwing around and began slipping into my metier. I’m not sure, but this sketch may be the first. Don’t know why. And after this, the technology began influencing the substance – and vice versa. The limitless timbres bled into orchestration, texture into style, and so on for every imaginable musical parameter. There are a thousand or so sketches that came before and after Klavierstück II, but for some reason this one stuck. At least one definition of Art is “junk that never seems to get thrown out.” Maybe it was because of the fancy, Second Viennese School title.
Junk is also Junk.
At some point trying to learn computer music software and hardware stopped being merely screwing around and began slipping into my metier. I’m not sure, but this sketch may be the first. Don’t know why. And after this, the technology began influencing the substance – and vice versa. The limitless timbres bled into orchestration, texture into style, and so on for every imaginable musical parameter. There are a thousand or so sketches that came before and after Klavierstück II, but for some reason this one stuck. At least one definition of Art is “junk that never seems to get thrown out.” Maybe it was because of the fancy, Second Viennese School title.
Junk is also Junk.