By no means noise artists.. but as there was topic of Anna Thorvaldsdottir, why not Hania Rani. One of my most listened "contemporary music" albums must have been Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher "Inner Symphonies" album. Actually have it both as 2xLP and CD, as been listening plenty. I like the style of Hania Rani to play and record the piano in a way that you hear exaggerated amount of "surface noise". You will hear the fingernails clapping against the piano keys, you will hear the chair creak etc. This quality is most common feature I think when I think of her works. I have pretty much everything else (that I know exists), the new "On Giacometti" LP/CD not yet. Just heard from others, but also noticed from discogs comments that vinyl quality sucks ass.
When I first heard her work, instantly started to order some copies to my record store and recommend it to people who'd not maybe like Philip Glass repetition and "obscurity" so much, but also could care less about "piano music". Hania Rani can get occasionally on fine line of getting a bit sweet, yet there is mostly really good atmospheres and perhaps the quality of "manual noises" of piano playing is main reason I like it. The way she uses the mute pedal, or muffler rail, however you'd describe in English, is quite unusual. It often appears as main intention is to have piano sounding dusty and suppressed and muffled, so that the all surface noises will be heard better!
Can't now remember the names of piano music LP's I've ordered through Millstone (see), but it is indeed curious that the calm, relaxed, but somehow odd sounding piano album go nicely along all sorts of post industrial LP's and do not seem out of place there. Think of something like... Robert Haigh?
Also, recently been discussing that perhaps Finn noise is soon to be characterized not by metal junk but.... usage of piano! haha. Perhaps not so prevailing quality, but something that seems to come up increasingly more and more. Just out of latest Satatuhatta noise tapes, 2/3 had piano parts.
If thinking what do I mean by all the physical sounds, perhaps easiest way is to check this live recording connected to new album. You will see and hear how it is done. How it is not only about capturing the sound of notes, but microphones are placed also to capture the sound of piano mechanism and also the musician. Sort of maximizing the physicality, that this is indeed real flesh and blood, real physical instrument, real person that plays. All the creaks, footsteps, finger tips, old wooden house room sounds and such are present in a way that it us such an amazing listening compared to.... some sort of midi controlled software easy-listening piano muzak.
This type of recording I have considered for many years... perhaps almost two decades and talked about it. Of course Grunt material as is, often consists room recording besides the "electronics", and simultaneous sounds that emerge from what happens in room, besides the mic'ed sources bleed into noise when you have conscious ear really listening to it. However, it is still far away from idea of absolutely "3D" noise recording, that clearly happens in space but would not lose either quality. Not the quality of noisiness, nor quality of space. Well, that is another discussion, but some links to check if interested.
Video that best displays the placement of mics and also sonically may be better to listen than the first press of new LP...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NTVXaxHBQQ From new album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p52l5PoAeiAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfi8z3-YNkI would guess being released by Deutsche Grammophon is sign that she got exposed into vastly bigger crowds in realms of "real art music" so to say. All vinyls on DG label are brilliant quality. Of course, 45rpm double LP can be little nuisance if from CD you'll be able to listen entire album at one sitting.
https://www.hania-dobrawa.com
