About this minute
- Title
- 30 Composed - John Pitts - Joyful Balaphony
- Recordist
- John Pitts
- Collections
- Bristol Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Composed Sounds , Burkina Faso , Dynamics , Minimalist , Ostinato , Pitch , Prepared piano , Pulse , Repetition , Structure , Texture , Timbre , World influenced
Bristol 1 #30
Bristol-based composer John Pitts wrote Joyful Balaphony for prepared piano duet in 2013, and it was inspired by traditional balafon music from Burkina Faso. Prepared Piano is a special way of setting up a piano with a variety of objects inside the instrument – on the strings, or between the strings and the pads for...
