JANUARY 2018

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So much going on.  Just spent a buzzy day looking at over a hundred scores with stimulating fellows and then bumped into the legendary artist Christian Marclay!  Before Christmas, two disparate and unusual things happened: I reconvened with my band from 2005 – the talented Mira Calix and David Sheppard.  We are Alexander’s Annexe and will be playing on BBC Radio 3’s Open Ear live broadcast a week on Saturday 13th January.  Listen out!  Then I also went on a magical and totally surreal trip to the Hungarian outback with the engineers (Jigsaw Structures) from my piano-reinventing team (currently funded by Innovate UK) to visit our team piano builder, David Klavins.  We found a hive of activity in a factory, literally in the middle of nowhere; it was like a scandi-noir set.  We saw three distinct pianos: one lightweight, one designer and one enormous one.  This picture is Tim and Chris from Jigsaw talking to David Klavins (back to camera) by Klavins’ lightweight UC piano.

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