Matt Choboter | Visceral Totems: Epilogue

Performed by: Matt Choboter (microtonal prepared piano) Artwork by: Don Choboter | celebrating end of covid pandemic (2021) 3x4 mixed media Don Choboter's website: www.choboter.com Matt Choboter's website: www.mattchoboter.com Link to the album: https://mattchoboter.bandcamp.com/alb... About the work: "Epilogue" is the last track on the album Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano by Matt Choboter (ILK Music) The release consists of 10 spontaneously composed pieces recorded in several locations around Copenhagen and spanning the period of 2022-2024. “Visceral Totems” captures an unfiltered visceral expression that feels raw, exposed and honest. A way that I would play for myself while being alone. The pieces were captured during several searching periods where my piano became a laboratory and labyrinth for sound discovery and thereby self discovery. Everything heard is an open process continually unfolding and flowing. A bodily interplay of rhythmics, the pieces seek a dancing quality - a careful moment-to moment self-ritual in sounds both unfamiliar and becoming familiar. I can visualize the musical motifs as shadow puppets (wayang kulit) animated by the spontaneous movements of a flickering flame. The pieces work in various new tuning systems with the application of intensive piano preparations. Other than the second last track (recorded on a grand piano) the remaining pieces were recorded on a custom-made upright piano that features a smaller pitch range and also only 1-string per note. As a result, the sounds become more direct and tactile. Recorded by Matt Choboter, Mixed by Simon Mariegaard Mastered by Sam Nacht Produced by Matt Choboter