Of Solo Piano Sounds

Of his solo piano sounds, Timothy Cooper says: "I love the piano's ability to create oceanic sound—a great wash of sustained sound that can seem at once infinite and intimate, with no borders or boundaries--only the presence of being... Sometimes my music has no definable beginnings, no absolute endings: only waves upon waves of sound headed as if for all shores, as in the music of dreams.

"It is this sense of musical sustainability that I wish to explore, to create: Sound that rolls out to the edge of a horizon-less horizon and into a space too vast to fully comprehend, like countless waves tossed and lost across midnight seas. The beauty of pure piano is that it's capable of opening up this epic, unending space, this magnificent place where tone is magnified, sustained, and amplified. This is the sound that I search for in my music: a sustained sound that moves like I imagine the universe moves--out towards its outer edges. It's there that I find refuge, absolute intimacy. It's there that I drink from the mysterious deep and float, for a time, incredibly free.

"No words can quite describe the sound of sound or the oceanic place that I wish my music to be. But it is my hope that I reveal the angels of my soul in sound."