Abstract/ Conceptual overview
Installation version
There is now an initial installation version as a parody of the boat trip.

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.