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piano sonata #4

by sonja berlin-jones

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SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER 2012

Hyperminimalists & all fans of ignominious repetitions !!!! - is there anything finer on a cold English Sunday than to either commit suicide or go to a night-time car boot sale while your latest piano sonata is uploading to Bandcamp ? I have just done the latter. No I am not a consumer-crazed baddy. I buy nothing. My minimalism extends beyond my music.

I want nothing. Nothing on the shelves, nothing going on in the music. It's a whole lifestyle thing. There's no point in making complicated music that needs lots of listens - because no one has the time any more. There's no point having lots of stuff anywhere in the house because there is no time to enjoy it. How do you "enjoy" stuff ? Or enjoy listening to the same album over and over ? Or enjoy fucking the same person for decades ? Or making the same album every day for all of my adult lifetime. It is time to think about doing lists of the year's favourite albums.

I have about five favourites - all by me. I know Sonja will never ruin it by starting to sing or introducing an orchestra. Two villages away they will be having a carol service on the green next weekend and they will be singing one of my carols - a world premiere. I wanted it to be 28 minutes long. But no. I'll try to record it for you. And everything on it will be an intended part of it - passing traffic, screaming babies, old men laughing at how crap the music is, me breaking down in tears at how beautiful it all is. In the meantime, here is my fourth piano sonata - my best so far - uncompressed and unequalized and unamplified and unbelievable.

I've decided that this is a political piece of music. It is about how I want to go to George Osborne's paddock and shit on the few square inches that I paid for. But I won't - because I'd feel sorry for the horse. This piece is like Satie's Vexations, it's like the vaxation of wasting energy wanting to take revenge on the cunts who rule over us. They rule us because we weakly let them. But we don't have to weakly put up with crap music. So I hope you don't waste time playing this piece - but I'll have it on repeat all day.

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released December 9, 2012

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