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Form in Flow

by Emily McWilliams

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Emily McWilliams, an established musician based in New Orleans offers new work Form in Flow, an improvisation based around the nuances, melodies and sounds encompassing her main instrument, the piano.

As an experienced piano technician, McWilliams brings to the work the notes and sounds ordinarily missed or intentionally excluded entirely from recording, namely the natural resonance an acoustic piano produces. A segue from her incredibly beautiful and elaborate songwriting you will find in her solo project Silver Godling or in her collaborative work with Thou, Form in Flow is an interesting and deeply meditative piece into the auditory perceptions of not just the expressions of a talented musician, but from the specialised auditory perceptions of a piano technician.

"The piano music offered here is mostly improvised with some sounds mixed in for texture, all captured from my century-old Brambach tiny baby grand, a piano that was supposed to be a project piano for me as a technician, but who captured my heart with clicks and knocks and squeaks in addition to an old, wise tone. The main recurring melody (“silver”) is a tuning melody of instability from a new string stretching and trying to find its home pitch but not quite arriving and learning to sit with where it is. Improvisation is about exploring, not arriving, and this collection is a nod to the importance of ambiguity, the in-betweens, the neither this nor that but all of that, the neither here nor there but everywhere."

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released May 1, 2022

All sounds come from an old piano and its bench. Composed, improvised, recorded & mixed by Emily McWilliams.

Mastered by James Edward Armstrong

Artwork by Emily McWilliams
Graphic Layouts by Lucy Adlington

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