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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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