MOOSACH PIANO ROLL
12” Black Vinyl | Edition of 25 [+ 2 AP]
What if Cage’s 4’33” - a meditation on stillness, chance operations and ambient sound were literally set in motion, transforming his exploration of silence into an absurd pilgrimage across the landscape?
Cage’s silent score for piano invites audiences to listen to incidental sounds. “Moosach Piano Roll” takes this premise but sets it in motion, rolling a piano down a rural German street for precisely four minutes and thirty-three seconds. The piano becomes a musical tumbleweed sweeping across an empty landscape, turning Cage's static meditation into lively choreography.
Instead of silence punctuated by ambient noise, the reversal offers ambient noise punctuated by silence—the piano’s journey creates a moving soundscape that begins distantly, crescendos as it enters the frame, then fades as it disappears.
The work was developed in collaboration with Derek Tyman and with the support of the Kunstverein Ebersberg and Atelier Hubert Maier, Moosach, Bavaria, Germany [2022].