Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Cassette) nick relph an artist book by New

an artist book by New York City based

and a 5000-word biographical essay by Jordan Stein that contextualizes Ito’s practice and aims to afford the artist her proper place within a history of postwar American art

These recordings document the beginning of a vital

Monk’s famous maxim—“The piano ain’t got no wrong notes”—opened up something essential for her

Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 (Cassette) nick relph an artist book by NewBlue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 64 grand pianocreating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony,