Jacob Sacks prepares the piano, Escapist Papers recording Aug 2010.MOV

Jacob Sacks explains to Benjamin Scheuer how he 'prepared' the piano, during an Escapist Papers recording session, working on the album "Songs for the Living, Songs for the Dead."

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[9monava]

Well, YouTube wouldn't let me keep my original line breaks for some reason, but I thought you might enjoy the kind of thoughts your video sparked:

[9monava]

I’ve Been Thinking About This a Long Time…. / In the imagination of concepts / what’s let loose, is at once constructed / constricted and freed / the structures of intrigue / insist that all answers become questions / enticed by the Ringmaster / to look more closely, I / thrust my head further into the massive jaws of the piano / What do I see? / I. / a conventional drumstick turned radical yin, / horizontal, / at rest, / expectantly waiting /

[9monava]

what you and I see, though, simply ripples into the matrixed vortex

of the universe that is YouTube

as, no longer satisfied with Mobius relationships,

the dog in the tutu flies from the mouth of the cannon

and all the important papers continue

to wait, intent upon escape

while the sparkling pony gallops along the inner edge of the ring circling

the imagination of concepts

--Monique Avakian