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AARON KEATON

ABOUT

The Artist 

A composer out off the box

Aaron sculpts sound with his hands; there is undeniably a dreamlike quality to his repertoire. He left the conservatory very quickly, his private teachers came and went, and he decided not to learn the piano on his own, but simply to play, to seek rather than follow. Because there are so many things you have to ignore in order to act. 

Aaron plays with conventions; his piano pieces are windows into his inner world. He does not capture melodies: he captures fragments of emotion. He dismantles them, shapes them, paints them with his hands on the piano. His music is born from a place, a moment, a silence that opens up. Nothing is decorative: everything comes from an inner necessity.

Seek rather than follow. His works are constructed on impulse, on attentive listening to vibrations, in this strange dialogue between the piano, the world and what inhabits it.

Nothing is decided in advance. His music moves along the edge: delicate, precise, sometimes brutal, always sincere. It scrutinises what slips beneath the surface: doubt, momentum, loss, the flash of a moment just before it disappears. He composes as one opens a door. Those who listen enter, if they wish, into a space halfway between him, them, and what remains of the world.

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