What was the process like working with Andreas to get the piano and orchestra parts together?
In our case we worked serially. My piano score was in front, meaning that Andreas had to follow me in each timing constellation… and he did so fantastically! Were there unexpected challenges that you encountered after you started working on it? It wasn’t really unexpected, but I had to think about how the orchestrator might be able to work to my real time played track. Of course you cannot record such music with click. Andreas just had my recorded tracks, which were all the time getting faster or slower. Even though he had the score, without the possibility to watch me playing, how will he adjust the orchestra to the constantly changing tempi? So I created a human conducting. Can you tell us something more about this human conducting that you created? When I had finished the final recording, I opened a new track just for the conducting and recorded a real time click-track following my piano score with all ritardandi and accelerandi. This was the best thing we could do, because I knew
