Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Cassette) nick relph preserving each beautiful moment

preserving each beautiful moment

I was really just creating a micro-genre for myself - pulling songs together that built on one another

chill pacing…maybe just music for dancing alone

” —Svetlana Kitto

and a 5000-word biographical essay by Jordan Stein that contextualizes Ito’s practice and aims to afford the artist her proper place within a history of postwar American art

Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Cassette) nick relph preserving each beautiful momentBlue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 64 grand pianocreating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony,