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moonstruck (2008)
An installation in 3 rooms created for Kulturhuset in Stockholm.
In the escalator, The Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig Van Beethoven is heard as muzak through a lo-fi sound system.
Coming up the escalator, you realize that the music originates from behind a glass pane, where a live pianist performs The Moonlight Sonata on a grand piano. 14 pianists play the first movement, continuously in shifts, for the duration of 8 days.
As you enter the last room you move from an exterior into an interior space. A huge screen shows a video of the Hollywood actor Gary Oldman portraying Beethoven. Instead of the original movie soundtrack you hear a real-time computer-processed version of the grand piano outside. The Moonlight Sonata, the way it resonates inside of the fictional composer Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Commissioned by Rikskonserter for The Stockholm New Music Festival 16-23 Feb 2008. Computer programming realized at EMS studios in Stockholm.
The pianists were piano students and teachers from Södra Latins Gymnasium in Stockholm