"Well, it's true what they say. Practice makes perfect." An all-night rehearsal that stretches into morning. A pianist straining over their instrument– and their instrument straining back. CHROMATIC SCALE is the first one-act play of poet Leela Raj-Sankar, exploring a musician's relationship to the art that confounds them.

Voiced by Claire Wagner, the pianist, and Diego Noll, the piano.

Performed in phantom-concert with a frustrated arrangement of Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G Minor by Matthew M. Hayashi.

Read the full piece online: emptyroomradio.com/chromatic-scale

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SUMMER 2023

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