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Where to start with Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Start with Päan (Kurtág) — Kurtág Játékok, 2025. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 16 Pierre-Laurent Aimard tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 16 Pierre-Laurent Aimard tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 16 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 15 of the 16 tracks come from Kurtág Játékok alone.
The years need a caveat: 15 of 16 dated tracks land in the 2020s and come from 1 record, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under jazz; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Päan (Kurtág) — Kurtág Játékok, 2025. Of the 16 Pierre-Laurent Aimard tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
3a Flowers we are, frail flowers (Kurtág) — Kurtág Játékok, 2025. The lowest energy reading of any Pierre-Laurent Aimard track in the room (12 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 3 evocation of Petrushka (Kurtág) — Kurtág Játékok, 2025. The highest energy reading here, at 50 out of 100 — a 38-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Pierre-Laurent Aimard sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Pierre-Laurent Aimard's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 40 | 28–55 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 23 | 12–50 | ambient → driving |
| density | 20 | 15–35 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 14 | 10–25 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Kurtág Játékok | 2025 | 15 |
| Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 | 2004 | 1 |
Every Pierre-Laurent Aimard track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Fugue No 20 in A Minor BWV 889, from Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 (JS Bach) | Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 | 2004 |
| 3a Flowers we are, frail flowers (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| apple blossom (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Book VII, No. 29....Memories, Little Tin Soldiers, from Jatekok (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Bunny Rabbit in the grass | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Face to face | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Fifths (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 2 Scraps of a colinda melody faintly recollected (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Hommage a Farkas Ferenc 3 evocation of Petrushka (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Hommage a Jeney (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Play with infinity | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Päan (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Quarrelling (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Sirens of the Deluge (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| Stop and Go (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
| waiting for Susan, from Játékok (Kurtág) | Kurtág Játékok | 2025 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Pierre-Laurent Aimard's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Keith Jarrett — jazz, 13 tracks
- Where to start with Abdullah Ibrahim — jazz, 16 tracks
- Where to start with Pat Metheny — jazz, 17 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Pierre-Laurent Aimard as a solo artist, from France and born in 1957. Its contributors tag the artist classical, pianist and french pianist. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Pierre-Laurent Aimard tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 16, across 2 albums. 16 of them carry a date, running from 2004 to 2025. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 16 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 16 of these 16 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.