„It’s nearly 20 years since I first encountered the artwork of American post-Abstract Expressionist, Cy Twombly, at his 1994 Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Reporting on the exhibit, The New York Times stated that Twombly used to train himself by drawing in the dark where the act, feeling, physical gesture of making a line was initially more important to him than what it looked like. On reading this, I immediately felt an affinity with him. As an improvising pianist, I respond to energy and physical impulse, the feeling of making a gesture, as much as the resulting sound. And when I saw his work for the first time, I wanted to respond through music. (...) The compositions and improvisations you’ll hear are not meant to translate Twombly’s work into sound but are rather part of my own personal dialogue with the energy, signs, verbal utterances, erasures, poetry, feeling, and sense of freedom and play that radiates from his canvases, at times spacious and meditative, at other times dense, raucous, fiery, raw, and everything in between.“
Myra Melford
Myra Melford’s SPLASH TRIO with Michael Formanek & Ches Smith
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Myra Melford, piano
Michael Formanek, bass
Ches Smith, drums
Michael Formanek, bass
Ches Smith, drums
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Tourdates
28.05.2024 ULM/Germany
30.05.2024 ROMA/Italy
31.05.2024 LONDON/England
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