Cabin Music | James Carson

Pianist James Carson has developed a new form of music and for the last eleven years has been producing and directing Cabin Music, a feature film, to share it with the world. While attending the New England Conservatory, studies with Joe Maneri, Cecil Taylor, and the poet Robert Creeley led James to walk away from music and backpack overland from Spain to Japan. On his return to Northern Alberta, Canada, he then spent five years designing, building, and practicing in a remote strawbale cabin. The musical result was multilayered, detailed, meditative, and harmonious. "I wanted to play the whole piano at once,” says Carson, “in the same way that a single breeze can cause the entire forest to dance and tremble in unison.” He lives in New York City and returns to his cabin regularly.