This composition is the first in a series of “reactive pianos” I’m experimenting with in Ableton. While improvising at the piano, the MIDI information is being fed into multiple different channels with different instruments and effects on them.

This was inspired by the album Tomorrow is Yesterday by Vardan Ovsepian & HEO where there are lots of conversational interactions between the piano and electronics. “Making conversation” is one of the goals as I build these instruments and improvise. The trick will be designing the interactions so more fluid back-and-forth interactions can occur, rather than it feeling manufactured and stiff.