{"product_id":"duane-pitre-omniscient-voices","title":"Duane Pitre - Omniscient Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuane Pitre returns to Imprec with Omniscient Voices, an articulate, intense and emotionally resonant set of five pieces for justly tuned piano and electronics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOmniscient Voices is a uniquely distinct work that follows Pitre's trilogy of releases which culminated with 2015’s Bayou Electric and included the critically acclaimed Feel Free (2012) and Bridges (2013) albums. Where those albums were rooted in long form pieces, Omniscient Voices is a collection of shorter pieces, offering more harmonic variety than previous works, with a unique sound and feel that is still unmistakably the work of Duane Pitre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, after a five year period where Pitre did not focus on outward facing music, but instead on his own personal practice, a small idea in the form of a question came to him: would the combination of his latest computer- and electronic-based experiments, used in conjunction with justly tuned piano, produce interesting results; simply put, would it “work”?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConcurrently, Pitre was studying a handful of Morton Feldman scores for their focus on tonal clusters, reading a book on Arvo Pärt’s life and work, and contemplating the pulse-based rhythms of Steve Reich and Phillip Glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, with no intention of making a new album, the composer tried to answer this question. The results would spawn five pieces that would become Omniscient Voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn this new work, Pitre finds himself giving equal priority to both piano and electronics, utilizing his Max\/MSP-based generative network to real-time convert precomposed piano motifs, into data, which is then used to communicate with two polyphonic, microtonal hardware synthesizers whose patches Pitre authored; this process generates the electronic component of the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePitre also utilizes controlled improvisation to interact with the piano-reactive electronics in a spontaneous and inspired manner, going back and forth between these two pianistic approaches. In all, this approach creates a “musical feedback loop” of sorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite Omniscient Voices being the culmination of 15 years of hard work and inspiration, this beautiful album somehow materialized in a natural, intuitive and effortless way (like any artist's best work.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IMPORTANT","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":55029430124867,"sku":"RPT-36855","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8499\/files\/FOR_20261109_1100_110532_453_p_Duane_Pitre_-_Omniscient_Voices_005.jpg?v=1794224309","url":"https:\/\/www.recordplant.co.uk\/products\/duane-pitre-omniscient-voices","provider":"Record Plant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}