Untrained Piano Pieces

When is something a musical piece?

What is ‘good’ sound/music?

How much does the beauty in a piece depend on our ability to listen?

How must does our ability to listen depend on the beauty of a piece?

 

What pleasure and experience can be found in results of the untrained?

 

What if, someone untrained in playing music in general, and the piano specifically, non-the-less continued  to play, intuitively, again and again for the duration for a month? Would this earn a sudden respect from others – transformed into an attempt of seeking out the beauty in the pieces?

Score for ‘Untrained Piano Pieces’

1.

Ask someone, who have never been trained in playing the piano (ideally someone who have never done it), to play the piano

 

2.

Have the person play for a minimum for 20 minutes (ideally 30-60 minutes)

 

3.

Record the playing

 

4.

Take notice of how the playing change over time – notice how it finds a personal and emotion form

The following archive are the project’s pieces in chronological order.

Most of the recordings are in bad quality (consider it as part of the premise for the pieces).

Untrained Piano Pieces, I

Untrained Piano Pieces, II

Untrained Piano Pieces, III

Untrained Piano Pieces, IV

Untrained Piano Pieces, V

Untrained Piano Pieces, VI (played in darkness)

Untrained Piano Pieces, VII

Untrained Piano Pieces, VIII (more softly played)

Untrained Piano Pieces, IX (with some background radio music and industrial ventilation starting)

Untrained Piano Pieces, X (performed by artist Melike Ahsen Beleli)

Untrained Piano Pieces, XI

Untrained Piano Pieces, XII (rather coherent)

Untrained Piano Pieces, XIII (short but more ‘violent’)

Untrained Piano Pieces, XIV

Untrained Piano Pieces, XV

Untrained Piano Pieces, XVI (performed by artist Margaret Craig)

Untrained Piano Pieces, XVI) (played as were it the last piece)

Untrained Piano Pieces, XVIII (an attempt on tiring the fingers, as fast as possible)

Untrained Piano Pieces, XIX (piece played on an old and broken piano)

Old and broken piano:

Untrained Piano Pieces were started at a residency at Arts Letters and Numbers.