2011.10.21 - 2011.12.03 Galerie de l’UQAM, curator : Mélanie Boucher In this film a pianist interprets a piano sonata in an unusual manner. Through a journey into melodic and poetic microcosm the work questions our senses by playing on aural and visual perceptions.     Carried out in Berlin at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 2010, this work consisted of recording the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach on a prepared piano. The recording, which is the fruit of a close collaboration between Patrick Bernatchez and the classical pianist David Kaplan, was remastered at Oboro studios in Montreal.   After meticulous mixing under the direction of Keith McMullen, Goldberg Experience .01_Berlin session has been pressed on vinyl and is now available in a limited edition. Each of the variations was subjected to a different piano preparation and the multiple transformations give rise to a gradual and irrevocable dissolution. In approaching music as a living and transformable matter this project sheds new light on Bach’s work. This project is comprised of an exploration series of mostly classical compositions. For the time being, the exercises are focused on compositions for solo piano. In interpreting the score by rotating it by 90,189, 270 and 360 degrees (following an automatic reading, consistently along the horizontal and from left to right) the works reveal themselves in a novel light. It is literally about orbiting around them to discover their hidden side.   Piano Orbital will navigate through classical compositions, notably Bach, Beethoven, but also those of more contemporary composers such as Messiaen, Ligeti or Stockhausen. Piano Orbital will be spread out over several years of targeted explorations. TOP