Form ~ Emptiness ~ Emptiness ~ Form

by Jakob Pek

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1.	Maitreya 11:04	buy track
2.	Inside 03:07	buy track
3.	A Monk in Blue (Thank You Thelonious) 03:40	buy track
4.	Joy in the Kingdom 02:14	buy track
5.	Bya Gtor (Sky Burial) 20:30	buy track
6.	A Nascent Dream 04:48	buy track
7.	Brother Aesop 04:59	buy track
8.	Gesture and Speech 01:42	buy track
9.	Meaning's Sister 04:35	buy track
10.	Nest 02:14	buy track
11.	Ohashi Ohayo 02:32	buy track
12.	Om 11:59	buy track
13.	Plural 04:53	buy track
14.	Restful Gaia 06:08	buy track
15.	Seed 03:30	buy track
16.	Time's Memory 05:38	buy track
17.	Volition 02:39	buy track
18.	Yosei 02:10	buy track
19.	Kiss of the Blue Dakini 09:08	buy track

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Form, Emptiness, Emptiness, Form is an extended piano album that explores sonic contemplations on various subjective textures of being.

What is the sound of contemplating emptiness? What is the sound of contemplating form? Can one blend these contemplations? When does form becom emptiness and emptiness, form? In these recordings I present my findings.

While some pieces, such as Bya Gtor, dwell deeply in "emptiness", exploring long durations and subtle textures, others exist in "form" and play with multifaceted rhythmic structures. Some of the pieces interweave these dimensions of experience and exist as a "coincidentia oppositorum", an interbeing of apparent opposites. For a brief moment, form and emptiness are heard, known and experienced as one.

For this album, the piano is prepared nearly all of the time. Objects were inserted between the strings, various percussion instruments were placed inside the instrument, and some non traditional manners of producing sound were utilized, such as stimulating wooded dowels between the strings with rosined finger tips, bowing singing bowls placed on the frame of the piano, or utilizing an array of e-bows to stimulate multiple piano strings at once.

This was a deeply enjoyable album to create. I hope you find some sincere sonic nourishment in this music. Thank you very much for listening.

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released May 7, 2018

Deep thanks to Myles Boisen for recording, mixing and mastering this album. Thank you Steed Cowart for the guidance and inspiration. Thank you to Tom Duff for letting me borrow some ebows. And thank you to all my teachers, past and present, for the oceans of inspiration and knowledge.

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Jakob Pek Oakland, California

Musician, artist, and improvisor Jakob Pek creates a contemporary music for the new century. Avant garde, experimental, and improvisational in nature, Jakob's music interweaves refined expressions of familiar sonic worlds with journeys into uncharted domains of abstraction and discovery. ... more

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