Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Cassette) nick relph I was really just creating

I was really just creating a micro-genre for myself - pulling songs together that built on one another

The effect radically expanded the instrument’s possibilities

from melancholic soundscapes with Satie-esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony

The work harkens back to "Process Music" of the 1970s

Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts is the first book project dedicated to the life and work of Japanese-American artist Miyoko Ito (1918–1983)

Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Cassette) nick relph I was really just creatingBlue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 64 grand pianocreating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony,