»In Landscape with the fall of Icarus«, 2011 by Wilfredo Prieto.
“Drei Klavierstücke op. 11“, 2009 by Cory Arcangel.
»Ill Prepared Piano« (2003). A classified ad in a local newspaper was answered on the day of the performance and a professional piano tuner was hired to repair the gallery piano as the evening’s final performance. By Dave Dyment.
Cage: That’s how I invented the prepared piano.
Montague: On the moon?
John Cage interviewed by Stephen Montague (Summer 1985).
In “The John Cage Autograph” RGB values of the image are converted to chromatic scale piano sounds. By Steffen Kasperavicius.
»Playing Piano« (2008) is a stripped down, altered and refashioned piano with the addition of microprocessor-controlled machines and appropriated old piano rolls. By Marla Hlady.
»Plight 2«, 2007, by Matthieu Laurette. An update of the 1985 Joseph Beuys installation »Plight« originally exhibited in London and then bought by and reconstructed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
»Pianorama«, 2005. An old fashioned upright piano sits in the middle of the space. There are two small loudspeakers on top of it. A mechanical device (which plays the piano), sits on top of the keys. Out of one loudspeaker comes Janet’s voice and out of the other comes George’s. These voices are discussing what type of music might be appropriate for what seems to be a film they are planning. By Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
»School of Velocity«, 1995, by Rodney Graham, combines the piano exercise of the same name with Galileo’s equation of the acceleration of falling objects. The result is the piano piece progressively slowing down, with longer and longer pauses between notes. Based on a few bars of music cobbled together out of the score of Wagner’s Parsifal by Engelburt Humperdinck, Wagner’s assistant, to compensate for a problem the opera company was experiencing in synching up its music and scenery. Graham adds a progression of repetitions, whose durations are determined by the prime numbers between 3 and 47, for each of the fourteen instrumental sections that would be playing Humperdinck’s interpolation. The result is an opera that doesn’t end until the year 38,969, 364,735.
Justice Yeldham & the dynamic ribbon device (myspace/justiceyeldham),
Jamie Lidell (myspace/jamielidell) and Friends (Gonzales, Mocky (myspace.com/mockyrecordings) & Pablo Fiasco) and
Gonzales Solo Piano (myspace.com/gonzpiration) live at Donaufestival.
Set Design for Teater Bhopa, Workshop “Swedish style in Tokyo” and “Coming” – Shelter and a Bench/Table by Uglycute.