Simon James Phillips

Simon is a Berlin based pianist from Australia. He trained as a classical pianist in Australia and Sweden but now works primarily as an experimental improvising pianist. Musically, he constructs an open sonic atmosphere that provides the audience with time to reflect upon and explore the sound. By controlling the pace of a piece’s development, his intention is to affect the perception of time through music. Simon is influenced by electronic music, and is particularly interested in trying to replicate the mechanical and repetitive sounds that surround us. He is also attracted to the tension between trying to recreate inorganic sound with the piano and the limitations of the instrument and his own physical mechanism. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.