Max Arsava & Jascha Hagen - 'Alter Piano' live at 'unÜppig-Festival', March 07, 2025 (extract)

Concert-Performance 'Alter Piano' for grand piano and electric motors Max Arsava & Jascha Hagen The Alter Piano piano interface turns a grand piano into a rabid ISBN modem. 12 electric motors on 12 metal arms inside transform the instrument into a screeching, sawing monster. At the same time, the question of the relationship between man and machine is renegotiated at the heart of Western music culture. The interface plays itself and the composer only acts as a programmer, he is being controlled and the motors are used like body extensions, or it is simply bypassed by human intervention. During this process, 4 microphones microscope the sound and transform the piano into an electro-acoustic object. Alter Piano is performed in a 45-minute concert performance by Jascha Hagen & Max Arsava. Live Recording March 07, 2025, art.ist Wiesbaden Camera, Editing: Arne Hertstein, https://arnehertstein.de/ 2nd Camera: Nicolas Thomas Audio Recording: Leon Senger Concert and Recording funded by Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden Musikfonds e.V. mit Projektmitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst © 2025 art.ist - Kooperative New Jazz Wiesbaden e.V. www.artist-wiesbaden.de