liner notes
Harry Lachner
Wrote the liner notes of the original edition of “Schönberg Improvations” (Amadeo, 1990), in which he calls Pepl's method “a most radical use of technology” and quotes Dave Liebman, and the article “Harry Pepl: Über den Umgang mit alleinspielenden Flügeln und andere Paradoxa” (On dealing with self-playing grand pianos and other paradoxes) in Jazzlive no. 73 (1990). According to Wulf Müller (in Heckel) he lives in Munich and formerly worked for ECM.
Author and music writer in Munich.
Voices
Austrian guitarist Harry Pepl has gone a long and imperturbable way.
a most radical use of technology: to play on a midi guitar connected to a computer just to return to a natural, acoustic sound
The simulation is complete, the circle is fullfilled and we should not be puzzled by the technical method but by the musical result.
And yet, it is not a sampled sound, it's a Bösendorfer grand piano - played on the guitar.
the lyricism of "Alone Is A Golden Stone", the trance like 4/4 groove of "Magnet Resonance" are organically embedded into a context of highly abstract, atonal pieces.
