Naomi Kashiwagi – Piano String Drawing
Naomi Kashiwagi – Piano Hammer Drawing
Naomi Kashiwagi -
Piano String Drawing
Naomi Kashiwagi -
Piano Hammer Drawing
Naomi Kashiwagi -
Piano String Drawing
Piano String Drawings
Piano String Drawings are drawings/musical scores and performance remnants. The piano is transformed into a drawing instrument. They appear as a flurry of chaotic pen marks invoking frantic noise at the edge of blank manuscript paper. The drawings have been produced by placing manuscript paper over the piano strings and creating gestural marks on the stave with ink. The sound generated itself echoes the process of drawing. The absence of musical notation and clefs challenges conventional musical composition and interpretation. The drawings are visual imprints of an absent, transient gesture.
Piano Hammer Drawings
Piano Hammer Drawings are drawings/musical scores and performance remnants, using the piano as a drawings instrument. The marks appear as intense smudges of black pigment on blank manuscript paper. Manuscript paper and carbon paper are placed behind the piano hammers and infront of the piano strings. When the keys are played, the physical impact of the hammers on the paper produced both a sonic and visual resonance. The absence of musical notation and clefs challenges conventional musical composition and interpretation. The drawings are visual imprints of an absent, transient gesture.
