Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Vinyl LP) releases For Williams

For Williams

The music on this record disappeared for almost four decades

Project Manager: Marnie Briggs

Eddie Harris

Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Vinyl LP) releases For WilliamsBlue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 64 grand pianocreating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony,