ECHOLOCATE by Atau Tanaka (

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Echolocate
for toy piano and harmonising delay
Preparation and software programming by Francesco Di Maggio
Transcription assistance by Lara Serafin
Harmonizer by Manuel Poletti

We can shout across a valley to the mountains to hear our own voice respond. We can clap
our hands in a tunnel and hear the singing echoes dance around us. And when we walk on
snow, the ground no longer gives us the reflections that remind us how tall we are. Sonic echoes are like acoustic mirrors. This piece mirrors the soloist on the toy piano in playful
counterpoint. The electronic part picks up the live sound of the piano to produce echoes in
musical time. By being electronic, it also contradicts the natural decay of acoustics, providing
only specific repetitions. The quadraphonic transposing delay allows a four-voice counterpoint
between soloists and their own reflection, and develops from simple call and response to
infernal time machine.

Echolocate was commissioned and premiered by Tricia Dawn Williams as part of her ToyPiano+ project supported by Arts Council Malta ( @maltaculture )

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