PREPARED PIANO DE- AND RECONSTRUCTED

The strings of the prepared piano pondered the possibilities. The strings of the piano gave the prepared instrument neither lion nor eagle, but space. The dome wrote for percussion piano. We see the piano gryphon embedded in every angle of the absence of Buckminster Fuller’s initials.

The ancients conceived an ensemble with bolts, rubber stops and screws.

Commissioned to compose, the room had the letters J-O-H-N-C-A-G-E to replicate available percussion sounds.

He, John Cage, devised the name of Albert Einstein in the late 1930s when he was neither percussion nor wholly the world. In E=MC² vibrates a piano, a creature part-lion and part-performance area, creating an instrument that was too small to accommodate music for a geodesic dance piece.

Joel Allegretti