Kelly Moran - In Parallel (acoustic) (WXAXRXP Session)

What this video is

This video document exists within Warp Records' 30th anniversary WXAXRXP celebration, a landmark event in independent electronic music history in which the label took over NTS Radio for 100 hours of programming. Kelly Moran's session was the sole one in the WXAXRXP Sessions series that had not been previously broadcast, lending it special archival status. Moran, signed to Warp in September 2018, represents the…

Why it matters

Represents a pivotal document of late-2010s post-minimalist prepared piano practice entering mainstream independent electronic music channels. The acoustic session format strips away Moran's usual electronic processing, foregrounding her classical and improvisational training and her debt to…