Zellen-Linien uses all my research on prepared piano and live-electronics I undertook over the past years. I wanted to create an “electronically prepared” piano. There is no physical preparation on the instrument at all. Since 1999 I experimented with the real-time analysis of the instrumental gesture of the pianist and with possibilities to control the live electronics through the gesture of the player. A first result was the composition Das Bleierne Klavier. Since then many performances of that piece enriched my experience and led finally to this new work.

Premiere

• June 9, 2007, Sebastian Berweck, piano • Concert, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin (Germany)