Yeah, my feelings were Dali-esque, though can't help thinking Dali would
have given the piano some terminal condition or other. Some of Dali frankly
terrifies me, still.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: help! tidal piano
> 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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