The sound file “Palms” is made up of music bits played only by the palms — no fingers — using electric piano and synthesizer sounds that were then computer-processed. The sounds include some melody, some up-and-down swooping, drumbeats, lots of clanks and clonks suggesting old machinery, and hisses that are like old apartment heating systems in New York — still audible in many buildings.
The music, imitating people straying around in a gallery, goes from one phrase to the next without much transition. So this piece is the artist's “Pictures at an Exhibition” but with no march-like ("promenade") music between paintings in the famous Mussorgsky work of that title.
Cooper Kinzer Duo
Quartet Nice Guys Without Borders
Both of the bands listed above are improvisation ensembles that began on line during the pandemic. They also perform live in Germany, Slovenia, and Austria. The composed pieces are posted on SoundCloud and in which can be heard Constance's lifelong weaving together of music, text, and art where you can scroll to:
Constance Cooper is a classically-trained pianist and singer with extensive performing experience in 20th-century American music, her own and others, preceding her emergence as a composer and improviser. Currently she lives in New York City and composes acousmatic music and improvises using piano, keyboards, synthesizers, music software, and her voice.