This year we joined forces with our friends at Pitch & Sync to create an extra large musical Christmas, all in support of The Rhythm Studio Foundation, a local charity that works with schools, community groups and young people who have a passion for music but lack the means and support to take it further.
A series of musical guests performed live from W+K London’s public-facing Hanbury Street window in December. The artists, ranging from classical pianists to folk singers, took on P&S's massively extended ten octave piano to play reimagined Christmas classics.
The amazing instrument, which made its UK debut, isn’t just packing 30% more notes, it’s got super skills that lets musicians go way beyond Christmas jingles. Concealed within the elongated piano are sophisticated speakers which feed into samplers which, in turn, feed back into the sound of the piano strings. This creates an electro-acoustic sound quite unlike anything else, something which the programme of artists have been tasked to explore.