Alfredo Costa Monteiro: broken piano and electric organ
Recorded, assembled & mastered by Alfredo Costa Monteiro
from february to june 2021 at Mont Efímer, Barcelona
Piano recorded at Ca L’Escuder in june 2012
Thanks Ruth Barberán
Artwork by Alfredo Costa Monteiro after 19th century
photographic plates of fossils – Museu Geològic del Seminari de Barcelona
Design by Alfredo Costa Monteiro/Nicola Quiriconi
released December 7, 2023
Suspension pour une perte was created with a gap in time. A first recording of a broken piano was made by chance in 2012. This recording was forgotten for a long time, as its nature was that of a very limited sonic range. But as a premise in my work, limitations are always potential motivations to work with; so I decided to reevaluate it 10 years after, hoping that a new approach of the same recording would offer a quite different perspective.
Sustained and continuous organ sounds would be the connection between sparse events, creating a more dense background and giving these events a structure on which to arrange the whole piece. The time gap is not only a condition for change, but also a metaphoric abolition of the distance between past and present, anchoring the piece in an ontological Here and Now.
Alfredo Costa Monteiro: broken piano and electric organ
Recorded, assembled & mastered by Alfredo Costa Monteiro
from february to june 2021 at Mont Efímer, Barcelona
Piano recorded at Ca L’Escuder in june 2012
Thanks Ruth Barberán
Artwork by Alfredo Costa Monteiro after 19th century
photographic plates of fossils – Museu Geològic del Seminari de Barcelona
Design by Alfredo Costa Monteiro/Nicola Quiriconi
Opracował: Artur Mieczkowski