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Recorded live at the 2022 New Agora Festival in NYC's Socrates Sculpture Park, this is the second album by .soundfullness, featuring field recordings of people and places in the park.

.soundfullness begins with a piano found in pieces outside of a bar in Queens. We dragged it to an empty lot and reassembled it, weaving objects into the strings and taping simple electronics to the soundboard: breathing new life into an instrument that had been meant for the trash. .soundfullness celebrates the remarkable machinations of the piano by joyfully subverting its conventions: a ubiquitous musical instrument that’s seen alternately as precious or as furniture. We play the piano and play with the piano to rediscover sound and the mechanics that make sound. We invite the public to share in these experiments and play: to literally get under the hood and tinker; to stuff a bolt in the strings and tickle the ivories.

Both Doug and Nicole are internationally accomplished in their individual careers. They formed the .soundfullness partnership around a shared love of sonic discovery, an impulse to create outside of institutional contexts with non-artists, and a desire to make contemporary and challenging work.

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released September 21, 2022

Special thanks to Socrates Sculpture Park, Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, Chris Zirbes, and Greg Hammontree in their support of this project.

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.soundfullness New York, New York

Nicole Brancato and Douglas Paulson transform outdoor spaces into places of deep listening. Blending installation and performance, they play field recordings through salvaged pianos modified with electronics and other objects. With the belief that all of us can be music-makers, all are invited to play the instruments, enjoy the transformed space, and listen deeply. ... more

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