Kaps Freed

_{Music composition for piano and electronics.}Composed 2017._{You can use the MaxPatch provided (created by Stuart James) or create your own software to realise the score.}_<br>_{You need the Decibel ScorePlayer and the associated score file to perform this work.<br>}_<br>_{Commissioned by Gabriella Smart. <br>}_<br>_{<b><i>PROGRAM NOTE</i></b>}_{This composition aims to bring the sound of the piano as close as possible to the sound of Percy Grainger’s <em>Free Music</em> ideals, by applying pitch tracking and spectral filtering. Delicate, sparse piano pitches are sampled and transported into theremin like tones where the tempered scale becomes irrelevant. The 'Kaps piano' is the childhood piano of Percy Grainger, and resides in the Grainger Museum in Melbourne. It was made in Dresden, Germany in 1887. Grainger practiced on this piano daily as a child, presided over by his teacher and mother, Rose Grainger. Hope has long been fascinated with Grainger's <em>Free Music</em>, having realised performances of the theremin works. Kaps Freed imagines a link between his childhood piano practice routine and his later investigations into<em> Free Music - </em> a music characterised by the emancipation of rhythmic processes and pitch, both explored in this, and most of Hope's work. The piano notation is inspired by Albert Lake in Melbourne, the same lake that is said to have been the inspiration for Grainger's theory of <em>Free Music.</em>}<i><br></i><i><b>_PERFORMANCES</b><br></i>_{MLive,Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, April 2018.<br> Of Broken Trees and Elephants Ivories, Callaway Auditorium, Perth, June 29 2018 and Beaumont House Composers Residency, July 15 2018.<br>Bratislava Music Academy, October 2018<br>KuBa Saarbruecken, South Germany, October, 2018.}_{LOFT, Cologne , October 2018}_{Montford University and Bournemouth University, UK, December 2018} <br>_<br><b><i>RECORDING</i></b>_{Kaps Freed is featured on "Works For Travelled Pianos", performed by Gabriella Smart. Released in 2019 on ezz-thetics1012}

本作品为钢琴与电子音响结合的音乐创作，创作于2017年。可使用斯图尔特·詹姆斯（Stuart James）制作的配套Max补丁（MaxPatch），或自行编写软件以实现该乐谱的演奏。演奏本作品需配备Decibel ScorePlayer播放器及配套乐谱文件。本作品受加布里埃拉·斯马特（Gabriella Smart）委托创作。**作品解说（PROGRAM NOTE）**：本作品通过音高追踪与频谱滤波技术，力求让钢琴音色尽可能贴近珀西·格兰杰（Percy Grainger）的《自由音乐》（Free Music）理念所追求的音响效果。将细腻稀疏的钢琴音高采样并转换为类似特雷门琴（theremin）的音色，在此类音色中，十二平均律的音阶规则不再适用。“卡普斯钢琴”（Kaps piano）是珀西·格兰杰的童年用琴，现藏于墨尔本格兰杰博物馆，该琴于1887年在德国德累斯顿制造。格兰杰童年时期在其教师兼母亲罗丝·格兰杰（Rose Grainger）的督导下，每日使用该琴练琴。作曲家霍普（Hope）长期痴迷于格兰杰的《自由音乐》理念，并曾完成特雷门琴作品的演奏实现。《卡普斯自由改编曲》（Kaps Freed）旨在构建其童年钢琴练琴日常与后续对《自由音乐》的研究之间的关联——该类音乐以节奏与音高的解放为核心特征，这一特征在本作品及霍普的多数创作中均有体现。本作品的钢琴记谱法灵感源自墨尔本的阿尔伯特湖（Albert Lake），据传该湖亦是格兰杰《自由音乐》理论的灵感来源。**演出记录（PERFORMANCES）**：“MLive”演出，罗伯特·布莱克伍德音乐厅，莫纳什大学，墨尔本，2018年4月。《断树与象牙象》（Of Broken Trees and Elephants Ivories），卡拉韦礼堂，珀斯，2018年6月29日；博蒙特庄园作曲家驻留活动，2018年7月15日。布拉迪斯拉发音乐学院，2018年10月。德国南部萨尔布吕肯KuBa音乐厅，2018年10月。LOFT空间，科隆，2018年10月。英国蒙福特大学与伯恩茅斯大学，2018年12月。**录音发行（RECORDING）**：《卡普斯自由改编曲》（Kaps Freed）收录于《巡演钢琴作品》（Works For Travelled Pianos）专辑，由加布里埃拉·斯马特演奏，2019年由ezz-thetics厂牌以编号ezz-thetics1012发行。