Persian Music on the Fluid Piano™

The Fluid Tuning Organization in association with the Arts Council England, Iran Heritage Foundation and the Toos Foundation.

The Guardian newspaper calls the Fluid Piano™ “the musical equivalent of splitting the atom.” What makes this instrument so special? If you imagine an acoustic piano with no tuning restrictions, a piano with an immense diversity of ‘bespoke‘ tuning layouts and ‘indigenous’ scales from around the world (e.g., from Iran and other Middle Eastern cultural contexts) and a piano that even allows you to alter the tuning whilst playing — or simply to remain in the standard ‘western’ tuning should you wish — then you are halfway to imagining the Fluid Piano™.

One of the beauties of this piano is that it enables musicians to alter each note individually and separately by precise microtonal intervals per note, before or during performance. This liberates the instrument from the restrictions of ‘western’ tuning to make the Fluid Piano™ the first ‘multi-cultural’ acoustic piano.

To date, there is only one Fluid Piano™ in existence and on 27th March this historic invention will make its London debut at the Purcell Room with performances by the inventor Geoff Smith and composers and pianists Matthew Bourne, Pam Chowhan and Nikki Yeoh. We are also very pleased to announce special guest Ramin Zoufonoun who will be flying in especially from America. Iranian-born Ramin Zoufonoun is a leading exponent of the Persian-tuned Piano.

The event will be featured on Channel 4 News at 7:00 pm on Friday March 26, 2010.

Read more about the Fluid Dulcimer
Read more about Matthew Bourne
Read more about Pam Chowhan
Read more about Nikki Yeoh

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/classical/tickets/the-fluid-piano-launch-50262

Tickets £15

Nearest underground stations: Waterloo (Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee and Waterloo and City lines) Embankment (Circle and District lines)