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Video Development: Piano as a Body

Piano as a Body is a previous work that I built on for Song without Words. For Piano as a Body, I took my piano apart and I put my camera inside, and it's like, wow. I always imagine, if you're inside the factory of sound, what would that feel like? You know, suppose that factory of sound is a musical instrument or it could have been a cochlea. I guess the idea of being in a cochlea is a tiny, tiny space, so the inside of a piano is an inversion of that. The piano is a kind of parallel because it's a space that is seldom seen, and not very accessible without special skills/tools, etc. Being able to get into my piano was like a glimpse into a secret world. Through the camera's eye, a very cramped space like the interior of a piano took on the proportions of a cathedral - imagine that's what it would feel like to be embodied in accessible sound. I took some of the visuals that I had made of the interior of this piano and repurposed them for the video section of Song Without Words. It makes the feeling more grounded in music, and piano. The piano felt like a friend to me; it's just a special space.