PIANO MUSIC by UTON

Improvised and recorded in a piano room of the main library in Turku, Finland.

Music, production and sleeve art by Jani Hirvonen / UTON.
Sleeve and sound production in January 2025.

This music is suitable for any type of speaker system. Every way gives a different aspect, but basically any way is as fine. May it be headphones (with caution! read more info later in this sheet), stereo (or mono) speakers, bluetooth mini speaker, laptop speaker or even a phone, it's all fine as long as the sound is audible. Loud volume is not recommended, but it may be tried if wanted or needed.

Suitable to listen alone or with friends, on a background or by concentrating... or something between. Take a nap, fall asleep with it, cook with it, or focus while resting your eyes and muscles. Listen at home in silence or take it with you outside and listen in a park or on the beach and let the environment sounds get mixed into the listening experience. Many many possibilities in this spiritual interaction.

This music doesn't compete with other music pieces or composers. It just is. It's not perfect. It's not musically correct or awesome and wonderful... or it may be. It all depends in a way of how to think, how to listen, and how to feel. The main line goes in feelings and mood. Where the sound may lead the mind? Does it support the emotions, and if it does, which type of emotions? Does it lead outside from everyday feelings and moods, and can it offer something else? If it doesn't feel fine while just listening, does it become better with some tasks, like writing or painting? Is it actually better on a quiet near silent mode?

When this music was played, there was no actual vision of what is really going on. Just sitting next to piano and playing. Letting the hands go where the heart and mind let them go. No specific thoughts or ideas, just letting go. Sometimes some thoughts may have appeared, but never took the place to control the process. Focus was to let go, and to let the spirit lead the way. The spirit with its lights and shadows.

About the recording quality. No, it's not a pro-studio production, and not even near of it. It doesn't even pretend to be that. First of all, these recordings were not originally meant to be released in a way as they now are here on this album. The main idea was to collect recordings for a later use (for Uton or other related projects); and that also was made - but, because these piano recordings were sounding interesting enough as they are, still, over two years later, it started to be a real useful idea to release these without extra treatment (ok, some parts may be also on some other Uton album at some point, cannot quarantee that, but that possibility exists... and it's fine, or at least OK).

These improvisations were recorded with a smartphone app + a simple cheapish Boya microphone. Nothing super hi-fi, but still better than the phone's own built-in microphone. The piano room in the library is very small and there was some extra noises coming to these recordings. One of the biggest sounds is the piano chair, which was squaking very badly, and you can here it - but - it's a part of the thing in this document, and cannot be removed (without losing nerves, completely). There's also some quieter ticking sound, which might coming from a clock, which was still there at that time. That ticking repetitive sound is not much audible with speakers, but with headphones it may become a problem for someone's sensitive vibe. If so, please play with quieter volume or move to speakers. Anyways, high volume is not required or not even recommended while playing this album.

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There's also another Piano Music album released by Uton. It was recorded in 2008, and released in 2013. It's available for free in http://utonspace.blogspot.com/ but you have to find the link for it. Fortunately it's not too difficult (but the music might be).

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