SHANNON NOVAK - SEMITONE SHIFT and MY MENDING HEART CD's AVAILABLE AT PLUS IN CONJUNCTION WITH "MERGE" EXHIBITION

Semitone Shift 

This is Shannon Novak's debut album, an experimental album that seeks to blur the lines between music and fine art. It is made up of nine instrumental piano tracks that explore the emotional change in a piece of music when a note is shifted up one semitone. With each track, Novak created an artwork that was exhibited in Auckland, New Zealand. The audience could view a work and listen to the accompanying track at the same time. The compositions have been designed to allude to the leaf form found in nature, starting off with single notes (the stem of a leaf), moving into a greater breadth of notes (the middle of the leaf), then tapering out at the end with single notes again (the end of a leaf).

My Mending Heart

This is Novak's second album and is more of a traditional album made up of tracks written a number of years ago but never recorded until now. They were written during a time in Novak's life when he was much younger, more isolated, and wrestling with new and emotionally intense experiences with the heart. 

Both albums are available on iTunes and CD.