Denman Maroney - "Nits Musica 1 (edit)" (Official Audio) from 'Nits Musica' [Cuneiform Records]

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The music of "hyperpianist" Denman Maroney is inspired by nature and the music of John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Henry Cowell, Duke Ellington, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Olivier Messiaen, Thelonious Monk, Conlon Nancarrow and Karheinz Stockhausen among others. Maroney plays what he calls hyperpiano, which involves bowing and sliding the strings with bars, cylinders, bowls, blocks, and cases and gives him a unique sonic vocabulary. He also uses a system of temporal harmony, based on the undertone series (1, 1/2, 1/3...) that allows him to improvise and compose in multiple tempos at once.
In 2006 Agusti Fernandez invited Maroney to perform solo on a piano series he curated for the Fondatió Miró in Barcelona, Spain. The series ran in conjunction with an exhibition of Tampered Pianos by Carles Santos.
This is what he played. It’s a mélange of his compositions Pulse Field (11:59 of track 1) and Kilter (beginning of track 2) and his improvisational techniques hyperpiano and temporal harmony, respectively (1) playing the keys with one hand and the strings with the other using bows and slides of metal, plastic, rubber, and wood and (2) writing and playing in pulse fields and rhythmic canons.
For more information see www.denmanmaroney.com.