Joanna:
Sounds vaguely surrealist. Or dada.
{My art belongs daddy -- Tristran Tzara quoted in Tom Stoppard's
+Travesties+.)
The three-piano cascade reminds of Magritte, but oddly nuff, RM didn't do
pianos -- every explosive deleted repeated iconographic image but.
So ground-zero is de Chirico, Magritte, and Dali.
My money's on Dali.
Nah?
The Dynamiter Zero
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: help! tidal piano
> After mistyping that link around midnight (sorry! and it clearly spent a
> while in transit too) my sleep last night was troubled by some rather
> peculiar dreams. One episode in particular is bothering me, because I'm
sure
> it's based on something I've actually seen or seen a picture of --
painting,
> photograph, film, or whatever.
>
> I was on a shore, looking from right to left towards a piano which was
> standing actually in the shallows. The keyboard was facing me. It was an
> oldfashioned upright, very tall for its width, and I knew that whatever
> original I'd seen showed just the one instrument though in my dream there
> were three, evenly spaced one behind the other along the waterline. I
don't
> think there was a pianist, but I was aware that if there was it would be a
> man in a frock coat, with a lot of black hair and his hands flying. The
> colours were muted -- black, white, shades of grey and cream. And it was
> absolutely silent, which was a relief to me since I'd just got out of a
room
> in which a lot of people were all talking at once, making a noise like the
> sea so that I ended up feeling faint. That last is a weird experience in a
> dream, I can tell you!
>
> This is probably either glaringly obvious to everyone but me or else
> wholecloth out of my own head. But if anyone recognises the visual spark
it
> came from, I'd be glad to know.
>
> Have a good weekend,
>
> joanna
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