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Laurent de Wilde & Otisto 23

Using the piano as exclusive sound source (keyboard, strings, wood : percussions, ambiances or melodies), create in real time music with a computer that records, treats, abuses and organises the material it receives. The main particularity of this project stands in the fact that it executed live and that music is created step by step.
This kind of adventure is not to be tried on your own. Pianist become sound engineer, early days electronic experimenter and computer recording master, Otisto 23 is the perfect partner for this project. Thanks to his incredible computer skills, he the computer into a genuine musical instrument that naturally combines with the piano.
Out of this perilous fiddling comes a hard-to-define kind of music : no matter how far the sound treatment reach, the piano remains at the core of these sonic variations, like a wood and oakum boat sailing digital seas, and delivers a colourful and dreamlike music. Minimalist and ethereal, permanently evolving but never losing its founding rhythm, the universe created by this unlikely encounter between PC and piano exhales the serenity of an inner journey which makes it simply accessible to every ear...