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Denman

Denman Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Classical / Experimental / Jazz

    Location Monsey, New York, US

    Profile Views: 27648

    Last Login: 5/8/2011

    Member Since 11/30/2006

    Website denmanmaroney.com

    Record Label nuscope records (http://www.nuscoperec.com)

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. ..“Pianists have been tinkering with the guts of their instruments for nearly a century now, but it’s altogether likely that no one has explored the art of prepared piano as diligently or creatively as ‘hyperpianist’ Denman Maroney.” — Time Out New York — The music of "hyperpianist" Denman Maroney is inspired by natural sounds and the music of Cage, Coleman, Cowell, Ellington, Ives, Joplin, Messiaen, Monk, Nancarrow and Stockhausen among others. — Maroney uses a set of extended piano performance techniques he calls hyperpiano, which involves bowing or sliding the strings with copper bars, metal bowls, rubber blocks, and plastic boxes and gives him a unique sonic vocabulary. — He also uses a system of temporal harmony based on the undertone series, which enables him to keep several beats at once. — Maroney has recorded for Cryptogramophone, New World, Victo, Nuscope, Clean Feed, CIMP, Innova, Potlatch, Erstwhile, Music & Arts, Tzadik, Knitting Factory, Soul Note, Cadence, Mutable, Finnadar, Tellus, Enja, and Einstein among other labels with Mark Dresser, Michael Sarin, Alexandra Montano, Mat Maneri, Leroy Jenkins, Min Xiao-Fen, Rich O’Donnell, Ned Rothenberg, Dave Ballou, Kevin Norton, Matthias Ziegler, Earl Howard, Hans Tammen, John Hagen, Gerry Hemingway, Mary Rowell, Theo Bleckman, Dave Douglas, Phil Haynes, Robert Dick and David Simons among others. — Maroney has won grants from CMA, ASCAP, NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, Music Omi, Meet the Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Yale Summer School of Music, and the Michigan State Arts Council. — He was educated at California Institute of the Arts (MFA) and Williams (BA).

  • Members

    Denman Maroney - hyperpiano

  • Influences

    Natural sounds, Bach, Cage, Chopin, Coleman, Cowell, Ellington, Ives, Joplin, Ligeti, Messiaen, Monk, Nancarrow, Scriabin, Sun Ra

  • Sounds Like

    music to me

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