Ralf Schmid, pianist, composer and sound researcher, has freed himself from the dogma of musical genres. - MI-MU GLOVES (developed by Imogen Heap) control the electronic sound in the flow of piano playing with light finger and hand movements. - He plays his compositions and improvisations on two grand pianos simultaneously. - Groundbreaking symbiosis of music and technique. - First album in the world composed and produced with MI-MU GLOVES. While technology for the modification of sounds is often used in postproduction, the pianist Ralf Schmid in his project and Alter Ego PYANOOK these from the beginning for the conception of his pieces. For this purpose he innovation of music technology: MI-MU GLOVES. With them, he can hear the sound of what he is listening to on the piano, immediately manipulate it digitally by hand gestures and thus creates a world first. PYANOOK is an Album between classical piano music and jazz, combined with technology from cyberpunk. It treads musical ground, and compositional uncharted territory and offers in its very own world of sound a familiar Retreat
