Small Rooms

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A CD of text and piano music, small rooms emerges out of Friesen poems and prose pieces and Lerner's improvisational interaction with them. These pieces interweave piano and text, coloring each other, informing each other.

"Got your Small Rooms. It's beautiful. I love its starkness, its space. Marilyn's composition blends in seamlessly, so that the voice and piano really are part of one soundscape, and not just complementing each other. It takes courage to leave out so much, to make the space around a sound or a word or a note into an idea--to use silence as a part of that nexus. The work is a quietude. After listening to it, I wanted to go into a 'small room' to think about everything."--Brian Brett