Matt Choboter – Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano
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description: “This release consists of 10 spontaneously composed pieces recorded in several locations around Copenhagen and spanning the period of 2022-2024. “Visceral Totems” captures an unfiltered visceral expression that feels raw, exposed and honest. A way that I would play for myself while being alone. Evoking the plane of dreams and absorbing the mytho-spiritual worlds of South Indian Classical and Balinese Gamelan music, this release bridges expansive territories between avant-jazz, contemporary experimental, and ambient music. The pieces were captured during several searching periods where my piano became a laboratory and labyrinth for sound discovery and thereby self discovery. Everything heard is an open process continually unfolding and flowing. A bodily interplay of rhythmics, the pieces seek a dancing quality - a careful moment-to moment self-ritual in sounds both unfamiliar and becoming familiar. I can visualize the musical motifs as shadow puppets (wayang kulit) animated by the spontaneous movements of a flickering flame. The pieces work in various new tuning systems with the application of intensive piano preparations. Other than the second last track (recorded on a grand piano) the remaining pieces were recorded on a custom-made upright piano that features a smaller pitch range and also only 1-string per note. As a result, the sounds become more direct and tactile.” – Matt Choboter Danish-based Canadian composer and pianist, Matt Choboter’s music paints subliminal sound narratives within Contemporary Music. Informed by non-western cultures and eclectic spiritualism, he embraces liminal psychology and dream work; a panpsychist ecology; and a musical practice which absorbs distinct features of Just Intonation, South Indian classical and Balinese Gamelan. Nominated for composer of the year (2025 Danish Music Awards) he con- tributes to labels such as ILK Music (DK), Kairos (AU), Inner Circle Music (NY), and Songlines Recordings (CA) with music described as - “ephem…
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