the celestina

… Speaking with David Schotzko
for ARRAYMUSIC Living Room Talks: John Mark Sherlock Returns

Sherlock on recent work; use of vintage electric keyboards:

On this, the occasion of the 47th anniversary of my birth in February of 1970, I introduce to you:

the celestina

Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos
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Hohner Clavinets/Pianets/Cembalet/Guitaret
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Hammond organs with Leslie speakers
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Mustel Celesta

the celestina is a collection of largely electromechanical keyboards which I see as a timbral singularity?yes, singularity for which I have undertaken compositional work in subsets in the past and am writing for as a whole, currently…