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PIANO DAY & THE FUTUR


“Why does the world need a Piano Day?

For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.” – Nils Frahm

Piano Day, an annual worldwide gathering of events which takes place on the 88th day of the year because this is the number of keys on the instrument being celebrated. Launched in 2015, more information on www.pianoday.org
That's right, there's a day all about the history and love for pianos.
Is there a greater way to stir your curiosity and allow a new approach to the artistic world than an audiovisual performance around the piano ?!

ECU and PIANO DAY, since 2017

Next event: March 28, 2024

2023 - The 88 Notes - Series 2

EC Underground continue to support resident talents alongside international artists from numerous countries.

Released on EC Underground label, March 29, 2023 with the artists :  Infinite scale, Florian Förster, Ruxpin, Coppé, MEI, Sergio Mariani, Mikromatique, Lorenz Weber, Géraldine Kwik, Sunken Foal, Bistro Boy, X.U.L., aAirial, Anam Gu Anam, Marie Awadis, Oscar Carmona.

Crossing genres, paths, and people not only brings people, communities and landscapes to life, but it also prompts personal and moral reflections, and musical expressions.

2022 - ECU & The 88 notes

Tuesday, March 29 marks the launch of a new project in the ECU release Catalog. This year, we are thrilled to celebrate a new time, the piano, this beautiful instrument and their performers, composers, and YOU, the listener, with a Digital & CD release compilation : ECU & The 88 Notes (Series1)

For this 6th edition, we picked very carefully artists who have been involved in the Piano day project since the origin in 2017 and artists that we'd like to see in the future! We hope you recognize names and will also enjoy this wonderful gathering as an awaited release that showcases our label and amazing worldwide artists.

Here is the composition, with lots of love and respect rather than a specific order: Marie Awadis, closeyoureyes, aAirial, arovane_porya hatami, Geraldine Kwik, Lorenz Weber, Holeg Spies, Watine, Snowdrops, After The Pulse, AMNION, Mathieu Karsenti and this is not a end!

2020 & 2021 Let's Celebrate Together - Worldwide streaming

Music can orchestrate a piece of life or simply a state of mind. She develops empathy or writing a story. With EC UNDERGROUND, we were lucky and we are glad to present the artists who participated.

ECU has been able to host already 2 shows #livestream with support of the following artists who dedicated time and effort to create “music-dialogues“ to celebrate together this wonderful instrument and its heroes! Support the artists, Share the music you love.

PIANO DAY 2019 - Lille & Berlin

Is there a greater way to stir your curiosity and allow a new approach to the artistic world than an audiovisual performance around the piano ?!
  • Openness to visual and digital arts
  • Discovering electronic music
  • Experimentation and Immersion
The PIANO DAY 2019 project is planned in the cities of Lille and Berlin.

Line-Up & Artists 2019 ( lille & berlin )

lille & berlin

with Marie Awadis in Berlin.

PIANO & ELECTRONIC (AV)
Hior Chronik relationship with music started when he was working as a radio producer for Jazz fm in the early 90s’ and as a columnist for various music magazines. He began creating music about 10 years ago and today his focus is on minimal ambient based mainly on piano, characterised by cinematography, melancholy, scattered notes and long melodies that form expressive engagements.
berlin
Hior Chronik support
PIANO SOLO
Marie Awadis is a classically trained pianist, born in Lebanon living in Germany. She is known for her deep sensible and intimate warm sound. Her last album ‚Searching‘ was released 2017.
lille & berlin
Walking Man Serie
PIANO SOLO (AV)
French pianist Geraldine Kwik will perform live her musical series Walking Man broadcasted on Youtube since 2017. His score is on the screen: a set of short films that she herself wrote and edited from fragments of archives.
lille & berlin
TRiii Collective
AUDIO VISUAL EXPERIENCE
Emmanuel is part of many LCE projects since its creation, active member of the Franco-Belgian collective TRiii, composed of visual artists and graphic arts professionals refusing the "sampling" video, Triii thinks in images and sounds.
lille

Axis Mundi performance, with violinist Patrick Savage from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

ELECTRONIC & ANCESTRAL INSTRUMENTS
Holeg Spies is a French-born composer and music producer best known for his collaboration in film music with Patrick Savage as Savage & Spies notably for the cult horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), James Caan's thriller The Outsider and Raindance Film Festival award-winning true story drama Selling Isobel by Rudolf Buitendach.
berlin
Arovane is the recording name of German electronic music artist Uwe Zahn.
ACOUSTIC PIANO WITH COMPUTER ACOUSTIC ELEMENTS (AV)
Those familiar with Uwe Zahn and his Arovane project need no introduction to his sound.
Arovane will perform a set with the piano as a "sound centre", combining the electronic side (computer generated sounds) with the acoustic piano.
Get to know Arovane, thanks to A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE