When I was a child, before I started writing my own music, I used to write short stories. My poor handwriting made it difficult for others to read, and we didn’t have a computer at home at the time. So my parents got me a typewriter for my birthday. I loved it so much. Ideas would just flow, from my mind, into printed paper. What I liked the most about the typewriter was the sound that it made. And how each word would become music as it got typed. It was an electric typewriter, so there was a little bit of delay between my key presses and the actual sound. I learnt how to work around it and I would type faster or slower in order to queue up characters and hear certain rhythms I had in my head. So that electric typewriter was, in a way, my first sequencer.

I see the grand piano in “three_four_maybe” a bit like a giant typewriter that makes the most amazing sounds. Sounds that are like characters in a text. When combined, these characters become rhythms, melodies, words, sentences. And, in theory, when used in a given combination, they could, like atoms, become something unlike anything that has ever existed before.

three_four_maybe is performed by NEKO3 exclusively. The composer needs to be contacted and help with technical assistance for realising the piece.

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