![]() ![]() A single key pressed, sends a domino effect through the piano to form a single strike of the piano strings, which are pulled to a tension that can exceed 40 tons. ![]() The piano has so many different mechanisms of contact: keys, hammers, pads, damper pedal, etc. You use all of your fingertips (one of the most touch receptive parts of our body) and at least one foot to play it. But after thinking further, the piano might actually be most deeply related instrument to our sense of touch. They are certainly the most visceral instrument I could think of, and require the most intense contact. I spent a lot of time thinking through what “touch” sounds like, and what instruments most represent the sense of touch. It's also the first of five songs written for the Senses theme - a song for each of the five classical senses, in the order they develop inside the womb: Touch, Taste, Smell, Hearing and Sight. “Touch” ( iTunes) is the fifth song in my Atlas: Year Two series.
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