Marcus Herne - "88.III"

For Piano Day, Marcus Herne has created an utterly transfixing and unique piece that while relatively simple, creates a thousand refractions emanating from the source of Herne’s inspiration of “play…and work purely on instinct”. Sound here refracts and shatters at each impact - each note striking and breaking apart like ice on pavement. Of the track, Herne states, “Their ambient drones and crushing distorted harmonics have been replaced by a far more gentle and curious piece. A reason for this is partly to Herne’s decision to change his approach for piano day track, rather than focusing on pushing the pianos sound to its limit, he wanted to purely play with the instrument and see where it led. 88.III’s concept differs again with Marcus allowing himself the use of other instruments, such as strings, percussion and a Celeste. With this being said, the sounds at the heart of the piece is the piano.”