Henning Schmiedt Piano Diary

CAT No. FLAU93
Release Date: CD 2021-09-15 / LP 2021-10-22
Format: CD/LP/DIGITAL

Henning Schmiedtの新しいピアノ・ソロ・アルバムは、パンデミックの間に毎日アップライトピアノに向かい、即興で作曲された楽曲を録音し続けた記録であり、文字通りピアノで綴った日記です。リビングルームでの録音のため、そこには通りの音、車の通過音、風の音、鳥の鳴き声などが聴こえ、ピアノの弦の柔らかなタッチと融合します。コミュニケーションの制限されたロックダウンにおいて、ヘニングは音を通して自分の心の状態を見つめ、内なる対話のように自分とつながり、一方で遠くの誰かとの共鳴を感じようと努めたといいます。彼の音楽的アルゴリズムであるインスタント・コンポージングは、ゆっくりと成長するエコーのようなものであり、ピアノ・ダイアリーは内なる対話であると同時に、リスナーからの想像力の応答によって無限の共鳴と反射を生み出すのです。前作「Schlafen」での方向性を進化させ、即興で生み出された珠玉のメロディーとエレガントなピアノのタッチ、深みのあるエコー、ポストプロダクションによる繊細な音の響きに様々な情景を思い起こす美しいアルバムに仕上がっています。

Piano Diary (Klaviertagebuch) is the new piano solo album by Henning Schmiedt.

During the pandemic, Henning started to do a ritual – every day, he recorded an instant composition on his upright piano, an acoustic piano diary / klaviertagebuch.
There were no 2nd takes, just a moment’s notice. Usually no longer than 3-4 minutes.
Since the piano is in his living room, the sounds from the street, passing cars, wind, and birds merge with the piano strings’ soft sound.

Henning developed some Instant Composing technics during the pandemic, musical algorithms, like slowly growing echoes. Sometimes his playing was like walking through an imaginary house, where the opening of a new door creates an unknown motive.

He could see his state of mind through the sound, and he felt connected to himself, like an inner dialogue. Since the lockdown was a time of limited communication, that internal dialogue became more critical.
But like in a real journal, when the thoughts and memories of the day become clearer through writing down, it felt that playing and recording the piano created order to issues and ideas.

Finally, he imagined playing for an audience, trying to connect to every single listener even from a distance, and to his surprise, it worked! He felt a genuinely remarkable and happy physical sensation, to experience connection through resonance.

Piano Diary is both: an inner dialogue and the result of a distant concert with his audience. When listening actively and conscious, every listener is sending back imagination, creating endless resonance and reflections. Becoming one through musical resonance is a state of mind that makes bliss for both the artist and the audience. And that is true even in times of physical isolation.

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Track List

01 late

02 at dawn

03 thursday 7th

04 some afternoon

05 sunrise

06 25 to 7

07 half past

08 saturday 27th

09 midnight

10 wednesday morning

11 friday 9th

12 much later

13 tuesday 16th

14 too early

15 twentyfive past four

16 12:01 am

Henning Schmiedt Piano Diary

CAT No. FLAU93
Release Date: CD 2021-09-15 / LP 2021-10-22
Format: CD/LP/DIGITAL

Track List

01 late

02 at dawn

03 thursday 7th

04 some afternoon

05 sunrise

06 25 to 7

07 half past

08 saturday 27th

09 midnight

10 wednesday morning

11 friday 9th

12 much later

13 tuesday 16th

14 too early

15 twentyfive past four

16 12:01 am

Henning Schmiedtの新しいピアノ・ソロ・アルバムは、パンデミックの間に毎日アップライトピアノに向かい、即興で作曲された楽曲を録音し続けた記録であり、文字通りピアノで綴った日記です。リビングルームでの録音のため、そこには通りの音、車の通過音、風の音、鳥の鳴き声などが聴こえ、ピアノの弦の柔らかなタッチと融合します。コミュニケーションの制限されたロックダウンにおいて、ヘニングは音を通して自分の心の状態を見つめ、内なる対話のように自分とつながり、一方で遠くの誰かとの共鳴を感じようと努めたといいます。彼の音楽的アルゴリズムであるインスタント・コンポージングは、ゆっくりと成長するエコーのようなものであり、ピアノ・ダイアリーは内なる対話であると同時に、リスナーからの想像力の応答によって無限の共鳴と反射を生み出すのです。前作「Schlafen」での方向性を進化させ、即興で生み出された珠玉のメロディーとエレガントなピアノのタッチ、深みのあるエコー、ポストプロダクションによる繊細な音の響きに様々な情景を思い起こす美しいアルバムに仕上がっています。

Piano Diary (Klaviertagebuch) is the new piano solo album by Henning Schmiedt.

During the pandemic, Henning started to do a ritual – every day, he recorded an instant composition on his upright piano, an acoustic piano diary / klaviertagebuch.
There were no 2nd takes, just a moment’s notice. Usually no longer than 3-4 minutes.
Since the piano is in his living room, the sounds from the street, passing cars, wind, and birds merge with the piano strings’ soft sound.

Henning developed some Instant Composing technics during the pandemic, musical algorithms, like slowly growing echoes. Sometimes his playing was like walking through an imaginary house, where the opening of a new door creates an unknown motive.

He could see his state of mind through the sound, and he felt connected to himself, like an inner dialogue. Since the lockdown was a time of limited communication, that internal dialogue became more critical.
But like in a real journal, when the thoughts and memories of the day become clearer through writing down, it felt that playing and recording the piano created order to issues and ideas.

Finally, he imagined playing for an audience, trying to connect to every single listener even from a distance, and to his surprise, it worked! He felt a genuinely remarkable and happy physical sensation, to experience connection through resonance.

Piano Diary is both: an inner dialogue and the result of a distant concert with his audience. When listening actively and conscious, every listener is sending back imagination, creating endless resonance and reflections. Becoming one through musical resonance is a state of mind that makes bliss for both the artist and the audience. And that is true even in times of physical isolation.

KEEP READING