Hans Otte The Book of Sounds
Conor Hanick piano
Nathan Brown spoken word
“A key work of 20th century piano music” – Universal Edition Vienna
“This work, a masterpiece of restraint, reflects the musical imagination of someone who has spent long periods in the quiet recesses of the mind.” – Terry Riley
“Its hard to put into words exactly what his work brings to me, but there is a sense of meditative peace mixed with a deep questioning of the world. I find it transcendental, music that does not weave a human story, but a deep internal view and simultaneously vast as the cosmos.” – Dustin O’Halloran
“I would say that behind my artistic work, as an aim or hope, is the need to find myself. In other words: despite all the separating structures, the division of all the work, the ideologies, fixed ideas, systems, despite the state and everything that ceaselessly tries to separate and divide us, I fundamentally want to be complete.” – Hans Otte (1979)
* This Pay What You Wish performance is made possible through the support of the
City of Albuquerque Department of Arts and Culture.
