Etudes for Unacorda Máté Pozsár

• 1 Thirds 03:23
• 2 Lydian Parallels 05:29
• 3 Ostinato 05:08
• 4 Four Layers 05:51
• 5 Accidental Accents 04:05
• 6 Alternating Scales 03:35
• 7 Slices 01:36
• 8 Tower of Fifths 12:49
• 9 Blues 06:41
• Total Runtime 48:37

Info for Etudes for Unacorda

Unlike the piano, each note of the unacorda has one string. This sound is ethereal. It's hard to understand it’s clear sound in musical textures with many notes, so unacorda is really suitable for performing music with fewer voices in particular. With my improvised etudes I tried to adapt to this property of the instrument. In my pieces I tried to create strict rules based on geometrical musical shapes and symmetries, and then I tried to play with these spontaneously. In addition to the small number of voices, the etudes are characterized by polymodality - the simultaneous sound of several modalities.

Máté Pozsár, Unacorda Piano

Máté Pozsár
is a Hungarian jazz pianist, composer and music educator from Budapest. He plays most improvised music or modern jazz with several bands and projects. As a music theory teacher at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, he is a big fan of music theory. Since a couple of years he has been developing a conceptual compositional method which is based on harmonies and voices inherent in the modal and the polymodal harmonics. In his music, the pure theory and the spontaneous intuitive playing is always in balance.

Booklet for Etudes for Unacorda