Carlos Cipa is a composer/pianist who has built bridges between musical worlds. Having received classical training from the age of 6, in his teenage years he took a seat behind the drum kit. When he returned to the piano and started releasing his first albums in the early 2010s, his compositional approach as well as his playing were marked by the impressions that his musical detours had left on him.
After studying composition at the conservatory, he used his studio as an instrument on his electro-acoustic 2019 album »Retronyms,« and started focussing on his main instrument again—or more precisely instruments, plural. As a composer-performer, he integrates the different qualities of various pianos into his practice. For 2020’s »Correlations (on 11 pianos)« and 2023’s »Ourselves, as we are« as well as his interpretation of Hans Otte’s »The Book of Sounds,« he worked with different instruments in ways that are directly inspired by their acoustic specificities.