Krank

Performed by Greg Beyer [full track]

Program Notes

When I first started thinking about writing Krank, I imagined a little music box made up of eighteen “found objects” arranged into three keyboards. Like a music box, Krank needs to be wound up in order to play, but Krank is a music box with a difference. Krank is a music box which tries to fight against its mechanical constitution, it wants to sing and be free of its constraints like a kind of musical Pinocchio. Three times it tries increasingly hard to break free. Three times it tries and… well, that would be telling…

— Oscar Bettison

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