Aaron Cassidy - 10 Monophonic Miniatures for Solo Pianist

performer Ian Pace “When working on and performing Wieland’s piece, I was thinking so strongly ‘THIS is why I play new music’. It’s so incredibly rewarding to feel one has played a part in making something genuinely new and visionary possible. It was similar with a set of pieces called ten monophonic miniatures for pianist by the young American composer Aaron Cassidy written for me a few years ago, in which he explored a wide range of new oblique techniques for striking the piano keys (some very difficult in their sequences, and others a bit painful!) so as to foreground the parameter of ‘key noise’, building upon some of my ideas on this subject.“ -Ian Pace- Aaron Cassidy’s “Ten Monophonic Miniatures“ are composed under the presupposition that, besides dynamics in their standard form (e.g. ppp, mf, sffz) and durational discrepancies (e.g. staccato, legato, sostenuto), the form of attack placed on the keyboard has a distinct, recurring and static effect on the