Friday, January 27, 2012

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Changed Glasses - Unchanged World?

 My eyes have changed, but has the world changed....?

When cleaning my new multifocal glasses (this time with my old glasses on), I noticed a series of faint numbers across the lenses. Thinking it was a lab mistake, I phoned the optometrist. Apparently this is normal!

Now, as I navigate through this new awareness, so many questions are emerging...

How am I measuring the world? what is 2 25, that tree? my dog's tail? that cloud? how far does 2 25 stretch? if I put my glasses on upside down is the new measurement 52 2? how many things can I ascribe the amount of 5 VS or VS 5 to?

Hhhhmmmm....  ;-)

It has turned into a new (if somewhat personal) performance score:
FluxScore:
2 25   5 VS   VS 5   2 25

Excerpt from Conversation with a Silent Piano

...and here's an excerpt from the performance  :-)

Preparing for Performance

About a week ago, I noticed the piano was still under the stairs. So I prepared for a performance...



[change same old shoes by polishing]

Piano - Noise - Non-noise

At the local art school, the piano is stored (temporarily) under the stairs. The keyboard is inaccessible.

Interested in the stillness of the piano, I went to take a photo not realising my iPhone was on video record. Once the video was uploaded to my computer, I found it had captured a strange noise...

...a piano in pain?

Here it is, just simply looped and tweaked a bit: