Sabotaging Piano Concert

In this concert we explored the edge between composition and improvisation. We invited a pianist to perform a half-improvised, half-composed piece written by Teodoro Dannemann, a piece specifically written for the Sabotaging Piano and premiered at the International Conference of New Musical Expression (NIME) 2023 at Mexico City. The Sabotaging Piano is an electronic prepared piano that challenges performers through the remapping of keys to unexpected pitches. For every new performance, a new remapping pattern is given, so performers face a continuously surprising new element. The performer is provided with an expression pedal (a “sabotaging pedal”) to modulate the amount of keys that will we remapped, going from none to all of them.