Op(us) Negative Twee (for solo piano)

Op. -3 (for solo piano) is a reinvention of silent movies. The musical score exists only as a video and the pianist performs from the video while it is projected onstage. It places interpretation as the primary compositional concern and allows the audience to see first hand how the pianist realizes the moving images. No instructions of any kind are provided for the notations in the video. Some music elements are standard with a defined or clear historical approach to their realization. While others are graphic and aleatoric with unclear or open possibilities. Often the clear/unclear musical materials will occur within the same frame, juxtaposed in an dynamic interplay. The visual and musical elements also have a dynamic relationship that intertwines producing an indistinguishable inter-media. Music and thematic gestures provide formal clarity in an imaginary world that is loaded with irrepressible mischief and overt playfulness. Food is an important image and musical structural device Sections of the video score include music that was written on a grapefruit and photographed over four months. The images of decay are presented in a non-linear random pattern in a quasi-homage to Yoko Ono. Despite the nonlinear time inflection, the food theme (oddly) provides a traditional grounding of an overall form of a Grapefruit Rondo.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• video score
• yoko ono
• piano solo
• graphic piano score
• aleatoric piano
• intermedia
• John Cage
• George Brecht
• Geoffrey Hendricks
• Dick Higgins
• Fluxus
• Avante Garde Piano
• Contemporary Piano
• 21st Century Piano
• jello piano
• lady bug piano
• Yoko
• Ono
• grapefruit
• Cloud Piano
• Improv piano
• complex piano

[cellochaos]

Stunning!