cherry blossoms

i and the great drone artist april larson have collaborated on an album about cherry blossoms.

my pieces consist of a drone and a piano improvisation based around repetitions of the word 'fall.'

the idea was that while i, in the uk, look at the cherry trees blossoming in spring for those engaging in the cherry blossom festivals in japan it is autumn, 'fall.'

a random key on the piano was selected to represent the letter 'a' (in 'fall') and the keys corresponding to  the letters f and l where determined from this. this was repeated three times (one for each month of the new year) and the piece improvised from this point.

here is the complete album.




and my piano piece