Aeolian Piano
Yass, Catherine (2017) Aeolian Piano. [Film]
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Aeolian Piano is a film and light box series of a grand piano suspended by a crane and circling above the BBC Television Centre during its conversion into residential property. The circular structure of the BBC TV Centre embraced the world and reached out to it, with the BBC aspiring to be a global voice. It also looked inward, suggesting the BBC as 'the living room of the nation'.
Over the building the sound of wind playing in the strings is ethereal and otherworldly. It is disembodied, fragile and vulnerable, singing a swan song to the departed BBC below. This departure is more than just a relocation; it is the departure of a vision, however misguided at times, replaced by Capital, luxury developments, self-interest, bubble news.
The cranes supporting the piano are symptomatic of the cranes probing the sky all around London. They are harbingers of new skyscrapers and apartment blocks about to fill the sky and turn it into real estate. They will change the horizon both physically and in terms of society's view of itself.
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| technical support | Techniker engineers |
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