Concertina218 from Echo's Bones by Ross Bolleter, Michael Delia

Improvisation encounter in the Saint Benedict Chapel
Ross Bolleter (born 1946, Subiaco, Western Australia) is a composer and musician whose work is focused on ruined pianos. His recordings are available on Emanem (London), Pogus (New York), New Albion (San Francisco) and Tall Poppies (Sydney), as well as on his WARPS (World Association for Ruined Piano Studies) label. Over the past thirty years Bolleter has explored the timbral possibilities of ruined pianos, as quoted: old pianos that have been exposed to the elements of time and weather thus acquiring novel and unexpected musical possibilities. A piano is ruined (rather than neglected or devastated) when it has been abandoned to all weathers and has become a decaying box of unpredictable dongs, tonks and dedoomps. The notes that do not work are at least as interesting as those that do.

Here is Ross playing on ruined concertina, borrowed from Miloš Vojtěchovský, who used to play it in the music troupe Mozart K in late 70ies.

Michael Delia info see above.

recording: August 21th, 1998 Miloš Vojtěchovský

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