Diagram and Projection is an album for piano, for Disklavier, and for both simultaneously, produced on a Disklavier Bôsendorfer 280 with the support of Yamaha Music Europe GmbH. I composed it in 2024 and world-premiered it in New York the same year.

I performed the album on a Disklavier Bôsendorfer 280, extracted the MIDI file of the performance, edited it in Logic, and then sent the edited version back to the piano, which played it while being recorded.

The Disklavier was not only present in the production phase but from the very beginning, as I worked with its capabilities in mind: the music itself, in both its composition and performance, anticipates and embodies the essence of this technology. Without abandoning the legacy of piano performance, I brought my sound design expertise to the keyboard, treating it as an electronic instrument—pushing beyond its mechanical limits to achieve effects similar to those I create in audio editing software. The score features frequent and detailed changes in dynamics, meter, tempo, and pedal, which aim to be onomatopoeias of the automations, such as EQ, reverb, and delay.

TDiagram and Projection was born from the need to unify into a single musical language the influences I have absorbed from two vastly different worlds: my background as a classical-romantic pianist and as a composer specialized in film scoring, electronic music, and sound design. This album represents the duality between tradition and innovation, between humanity and technology—a theme that is not only deeply personal but also highly relevant in today’s artistic landscape, especially with the rise of artificial intelligence in the arts.

Until now, the Disklavier has been used in the editing of piano repertoire recordings or by composers writing for it. Diagram and Projection is the first ever project to approach the instrument simultaneously as both a pianist and a composer, making the Disklavier the heart of the creative process.