Errata
for solo piano
Duration: 9:23
Emanuele Torquati, piano
Commissioned by Emanuele Torquati for the Heidelberg Spring Festival. Premiered in Heidelberg, Germany on April 13, 2011.
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(program notes written in 2010)
I can't play this piece. My primary instrument is piano, but primarily I compose. These days, I play for myself, by myself, for the sheer joy of playing (and I make a lot of mistakes). Errata is an attempt to publicly correct these mistakes. Musical material is transformed by my own inability to play it, then reorganized into a (hopefully) more musically compelling result.