Atomic Legacies

"Dispositioned traces of glowing matter slip into our cells, into the spaces between our bodies, into our selves…" Eve Andree Laramee 'Tracking Our Atomic Legacy: Now We Are All Sons of Bitches' Women Eco Artists Dialog, Issue Number 5, 2012 The Magnetic Resonator Piano (MRP) is the brainchild of Andrew McPherson, who has been working on this instrument since 2009. Electromagnets are installed above the strings of a regular concert grand without physical contact with the action, allowing for control of minute details of shimmering resonance, fragile pitch bends, sliding crescendi from silence and sustained "bowed" sounds that the performer can shape directly from the keyboard.