Date: October 8th 2006

Gordon Monahan

Piano Airlift 1988/2006

Installation for player piano and video projection

Kunsthalle Krems Factory
Krems, Austria

Oct. 8-29, 2006

In 1988, Gordon Monahan and Thaddeus Holownia created a Long Aeolian Piano installation for the Sound Symposium in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The installation involved airlifting a piano by helicopter to the top of Gibbet’s Hill, overlooking St. John’s harbour. For two weeks, the long aeolian piano strings vibrated loudly. At the dismantling of the piece, the piano was thrown over the cliff of the hill, and smashed into pieces.

The video documentation of the airlifting and airborne destruction of the piano becomes the basis of this new installation, which features a midi-controlled player piano, reciting a piece which accompanies the video playback of the piano airlift and destruction.

Sponsored by Klangraum Krems/Minoritenkirche.

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