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I Am Piano is a live music performance centred around performed reconstructions of piano samples taken from classic modern jazz recordings.

Devised by Philip Brophy, this suite of pieces conceptually and performatively extends ideas on the piano and sampling covered in his articles Sonic Occupancy (published in Ojeblikket Vol.10, No.3, Copenhagen, 2000) and Sounding & Sampling (published in New Music Articles No.6, Melbourne, 1988). Performed live and un-sequenced on a midi-keyboard, the pieces explore ways in which fragments of piano recordings/performances can be reinterpreted as raw material for a concert-style performance via a keyboard instrument.

Far from celebrating the humanist figure of jazz piano improvization - let alone the heroic cliche of the Romantic concert maestro - I Am Piano thrusts an ironic barb into the piano's mythological status and aims to perceive it purely as a sound machine whose melodiousness is but a mirage of musical language.

2005
ARTICULATING SPACE Concert 3, Ignifuge, Melbourne (2 pieces of the suite presented in stereo)
2006
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 7, North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne (3 pieces of the suite presented in quadraphonic audio)
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 7, The Wine Bar, Auckland (3 pieces of the suite presented in stereo).
2009
STUTTER, Horse Bazaar, Melbourne (4 pieces of the suite presented in quadraphonic audio)
UNDIVIDED, Northcote Social Club, Melbourne (3 pieces of the suite presented in stereo audio)

A CD and DVD-R are forthcoming on Sound Punch Records.

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