Salon des Amateurs Remixes

Last year, Dusseldorf-based composer Hauschka released Salon des Amateurs, an inventive, classically informed ode to house and techno music performed on his "prepared" piano. (For the uninitiated, check out NPR's fantastic video series, in which he details his technique of piling seemingly random household objects like bottle caps, leather, and marbles onto/under the strings/hammers of his piano to cull new and unusual noises from the instrument's 88 keys.) On his latest release, he pu...

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