Transposing Bodies
2024
player piano, porcelain
Collaboration with Bret Schneider
Tracing Ways Exhibition Comfort Station
Chicago, IL
image credit: Mikey Mosher
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A track feels like witnessing a ghost—an absent presence etched into the material landscape. In this performance, the path of burrowing beetles is transcribed into musical notation, then played by a player piano, as though by a spectral hand.
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