Georg Vogel

What if a piano had more notes than you thought it could? For Austrian pianist, composer and instrument builder Georg Vogel, the familiar twelve-tone keyboard is less a given than a starting point. For years, he has been developing instruments and tuning systems that open up other ways of hearing harmony, rhythm and melody - most radically in his 31-tone Claviton, a keyboard that divides the octave into 31 pitches instead of twelve. But Vogel’s music is not an exercise in musical mathematics. His solo performances move between composition and improvisation, intricate rhythmic structures and slowly unfolding harmonic fields, drawing on jazz, contemporary composition, spectralism and traditions of just and meantone intonation. The expanded tonal space becomes something physical: a place to navigate, get lost in and discover connections that conventional tuning tends to conceal. His recent work OGILSD VOBI continues a solo practice documented across nearly two decades, while his performances on piano and Claviton constantly question what a keyboard - and the music made through it - can be. At Three Skies, Vogel brings an instrument that sounds almost familiar, but operates by different rules. A piano with another world inside it.