Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday with Three Dances & Four Organs by John Cage / Steve Reich / Michael Tilson Thomas / Ralph Grierson, released on Angel Records in 1973.

Review by Brian Olewnick

The first side is devoted to John Cage's extraordinary Three Dances for two amplified, prepared pianos, certainly one of his most accessible works and arguably one of his most sensuously beautiful...Steve Reich's Four Organs has one simple but deep idea. Take a dense electric organ chord and then, with extreme patience and slowness, gradually lengthen each note that makes up the chord so that one journeys from the rigorous exactitude of the opening statement (with regular rhythmic accompaniment by maracas) to a languorous sonic cloud where each of the constituent elements has been freed to waft away on its own...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJlTVv_noSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li7m6HqNhq4

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Thank you Eli Wallace and Pablo Vazquez!!
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#MatteoRamonArevalos rejigs the classic musical theme La Folía de España for #preparedpiano

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The Guardian recensisce l'album postumo "Blue Abstraction Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987" di Jessica Williams

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/05/jessica-williams-jazz-prepared-piano-blue-abstraction

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My open-access publication on extended piano techniques has been published! I would like to thank all the composers who shared their perspectives through interviews and comments!

Katharina Bleier
extended piano techniques. Perspektiven 1981–2018
Dresden: musiconn.publish 2025
https://doi.org/10.25366/2025.9
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Pssst! Instruments releases Preparist: Piano Percussion sample library https://rekkerd.org/pssst-instruments-releases-preparist-piano-percussion-sample-library/

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