27.11.25, 20:00, Pianoduo Simplexity & Merel Vercammen, Reichs Piano Phase

At Will to Wander, you will hear each piece twice: first as it was written, then in a new guise. The central piece this evening is Steve Reich's Piano Phase. It is a constant shifting of similar material, divided between two pianos that seem to contradict, support, and complement each other. This is right up the alley of piano duo Simplexity, who want to understand how simplicity and complexity relate to each other. After the original performance, they will get to work on it. 

In the same vein as Piano Phase is John Adams' Hallelujah Junction, in which seemingly simple material is again divided between the two pianos in such a way that it produces an ‘acoustic version of a digital delay’. It sounds like a flight of starlings looks: like a cloud that keeps changing its mind.