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Concerto For Prepared Piano And Strings

4/8/2019

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The music is made up of sampled acoustic instruments performed with Soundplant; various solo strings performed by members of the Chicago Symphony (multiplied by overlapping performances and layering three of those performances with Mixcraft 7) and a performance of a sample set of prepared piano sounds. The prepared piano sounds are those created by John Cage for his work "Sonatas And Interludes", recorded and packaged by Big Fish Audio.  I paid $100 for the sample set, and it was one of the best investments in musical material that I have ever made.
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    Tom Furgas

    Born in Youngstown, Ohio
    in 1954.

    Piano lessons beginning
    at age 5.

    Started composing
    at age 12.

    Made tapes on a portable cassette 
    machine starting
    ​in 1969.

    Started home-taping seriously in 1983.

    Have sold and traded tapes and, later, CD's since then. 

    Musical 
    interests:
    contemporary classical, free improvisation,  electronic

    music both popular and "classical", noise, audio collage, experimental
    music of all kinds.  Have done many collaborations by mail and electronic media.

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