Choose artist...
Home   >   Projects   >   Centrifugal Force
Ori Barel

Centrifugal Force

Albany Records

Press Release

Read press

Artist Details

Read bio

Website

Visit
Centrifugal Force For Player Piano
1 Part 1  
2 Part 2  
3 Part 3  
4 Part 4  
Show all tracks
Hide

Albany Records has released a new album from composer Ori Barel featuring music for Player Piano. Featuring Barel's 4 part composition Centrifugal Force, a work inspired by robotic art, Barel comments: "We live in a culture where things happen extremely fast and so much information is condensed. I wanted to create a piece that would explore that aspect of our culture using elements of traditional and free jazz as well as silent film music, culminating in a musical fusion of today's technological world with pieces of the past. Using the player piano, I explored rhythms and tempos that would have been impossible for a performer to play accurately. To create a twist on this aesthetic, some sections of the piece accentuate the machine element and others sound like a performer is playing. This interplay between extreme fast and slow speeds fascinates me: an automated world contrasting a fake manual world."

  • There is enormous drama on Ori Barel's 'Centrifugal Force' / Elsewhere
    Posted At: November 16, 2019

    We expect by now few people come to Elsewhere expecting the always-familiar, so this album by American composer Ori Barel for player piano is one for those prepared for something elsewhere. Inspired by robotic art, the speed of technology and the musical reach from concert hall to free jazz, Barel has created "programmes" for the player piano using algorithms which created musical miniatures of varying s...
Go to artist details