2008
Year
Metaphors for Dead Pianos
A current art project supported by the FONCA is the development of a sound installation with four acoustic pianos dissemble and activated with actuators such as solenoids and dc motors. Some of the instruments are loosing their original forms, meanings, and sonic connotations but part some elements remain as traces and reincarnations.
Tell-Tale Piano
In The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allen Poe describes how the narrator's character kills the old man he lives with, how he hides the dismembered body in the scantlings of the chamber, and how he confesses the murder to the police after still hearing the beating of the old man’s heart coming from the underfloor where the body is hidden. While not programmatic, this work –the installation and the musical composition- is based on Poe’s story and uses an old acoustic upright piano electronically and mechanically augmented for representing the sonic imagery described in the writing.
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