My recollection snagged on the stapled receipt

Images

Smudgy black pigment on blank manuscript paper with the absence of musical notation and clefs challenge musical composition and interpretation. The drawings/scores are the remains of a performance but also a catalyst for one. The piano is transformed into a drawing instrument.

The manuscript paper is placed behind the piano hammers and in front of the piano strings. When the keys are played, a visual resonance impacts on the paper and disrupts the sound to produce percussive qualities. The titles are from snippets of text taken out of context from The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker. Baker’s fictional account of one man’s lunch break full of the wonders of everyday used objects resonates with the conceptual foundations of my work and contrasts with the obsolete.

The marks in the drawing are echoed in the sound recording. The patterns and process of drawing resonate. Other tracks are more percussive and the familiar sound of the piano becomes unfamiliar. The whole process is ambiguous and evocative, but is suggested by the medium.