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Samson Young’s Carillon

Art Stream
Hong Kong

Music Without the Pianist

Samson Young’s Carillon includes a prepared Disklavier player piano alongside documents, books, tickets and personal objects. I like the contradiction of a piano playing while the performer is absent. Sound makes the archive temporarily physical again. Paper can describe a past, but a mechanical instrument fills the room with an event happening now. Presence survives even when the person producing it has disappeared.

https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/collection/objects/carillon-2019584/

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