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From composer James Primosch, reviewing "Secrets of Antikythera" by Andrew McPherson (Innova), released January 29, 2013. This is a wildly creative recording involving McPherson's work with the "magnetic resonator piano". Read on:

"Andrew is the only composition student of mine at Penn who came to the school having already earned a degree from MIT with a double major in music and electrical engineering. Those two areas of expertise come together in the title work from this album, scored for the magnetic resonator piano, an instrument devised by Andrew in which the strings of a standard grand piano are set in motion by electromagnets without having first been struck by the piano’s hammers. This resource is available simultaneously with the possibility of playing the instrument conventionally. The result is an uncanny array of sustained sounds that spring naturally from the piano’s timbre, yet offer a great contrast with the conventional piano attack. Impressive as Andrew’s command of technology may be, he is also an eloquent composer, well capable of sustaining the 38 minute title work. Pieces for solo violin and solo viola, the later with the accompaniment of the magnetic resonator piano, round out the disc. Performances by Martin Shultz, violin; Nadia Sirota, viola; and Ryan MacEvoy McCollough are uniformly fine."

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