Exclusive piece created for Ears Have Ears.
Sophie Hutchings is a pianist and composer from Sydney. She began teaching herself piano at an early age before any tuition, developing her unique style through countless hours of secret practice. Hutchings has released three instrumental works to date, Becalmed, Night Sky and White Light, receiving fine recognition internationally for elegant and beautiful music compared to the likes of Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Peter Broderick and Dustin OʼHallloran.
With new album Wide Asleep, released via Sydney experimental/pop music label Preservation, Hutchings has taken her compositional scope into larger realms of sound and feeling. It is her most searching work, based on ideas on consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. In her most dazzling and poignant pieces to date, Hutchingsʼ piano lines extend with both electricity and elegance, winding through strings, textured ambience and choral voices through beauty and vitality. Reaching further with her music than ever before, Hutchings is in great company, recording Wide Asleep with Tim Whitten, best known for his nuanced and dynamic work with The Necks.
Hutchings piece for Ears Have Ears, titled 'Unfinished Story', was recorded via piano with the silent pedal in order to dampen the sound of the keys creating a sleepy placid sound, treated with the tiniest bit of room ambience to lace it with a warm late night mood.
