Fugue for Salvaging Drowned Memories

Woodford Folk Festival, Australia, 2009

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The ‘floating’ kinetic installation appeared to mysteriously summons up a fugue-state or “refuge in an in-between realm… between the rational world and a dream. fugue consisted of two partially submerged pianos fitted with insect-like appendages that continuously clacked out a mournful tune; scattered across the pond, the strings of 32 violins vibrated in the wind. At the festival’s end, fugue was set on fire and blazed on the water’s surface. - Carol Schwarzman 

 

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