P53 (band)

p53
OriginGermany
GenresExperimental, free improvisation
Years active1994, 1997, 2006
LabelsRecommended
Past membersChris Cutler
Marie Goyette
Zygmunt Krauze
Lutz Glandien
Otomo Yoshihide
Jon Rose
Zeena Parkins

p53 was an experimental music group commissioned by English percussionist Chris Cutler to play at the 25th Frankfurt Jazz Festival in Germany in September 1994. Their performance was recorded and released by Recommended Records in 1996 on a live album entitled p53.[1] The group reassembled in May 1997 to play at the Angelica International Festival of contemporary music in Bologna, Italy.[2] In November 2006 an orchestral version with three soloists, Jon Rose, Zeena Parkins and Chris Cutler performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow, Scotland, which was recorded and broadcast by the BBC in March 2007.[3] This version was performed again at the Opera House in Milan in 2014 with the Orchestra de Teatro Communale, with soloists Daan Vandewalle and Thomas Dimuzio.

p53 was a musical improvisational project that centred on the music of two classical grand pianists, accompanied by percussion, homemade guitar, turntable scratching, and real-time sampling/processing of the pianists.[4][5][6]

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