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THE LEFT HAND OF GLENN GOULD
Date: 19 December, 2001
The title of the work The left hand of Glenn Gould, takes its cue from both the explosive visual and musical expression developed by the great Canadian pianist during his concerts–expression documented in archive footage. Through the medium of theatre, this musical performance of Fabrica Musica explores the field of the musician’s physical expression through his musical action therefore permanently marrying these two aspects and concentrating in particular on the face, also through the use of video.
In cinematographic close-ups, the face is treated mainly as a landscape that can be defined as both a black hole and a white wall, as a screen and a camera. But other forms of art, like architecture, painting and fiction writing are also energized by close-up images that present all possible relationships. “Is your mother a landscape or a face? A face or a factory?” (Deleuze/Guattari).
This project does not answer these questions but invites the public to take part in the analysis. Through music, dance, theatre, video, live electronics, all based on the texts of Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Marcel Beyer and many others: an experimental set resulting from a workshop lasting several weeks.
The left hand of Glenn Gould was a stage project of the students of the Institut für angewandte Theaterwissenschaft (Institute for theatre studies) of the University of Justus Liebig in Giessen, Germany directed by the composer and director Professor Heiner Goebbels and by Fabrica Musica, co-ordinated by the composer and orchestra director Andrea Molino, head of the Fabrica Musica department.
The project was first presented during the Fabrica London Festival on December 19 2001 at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. A second performance was held in Taormina, during the Taormina Arte Festival on April 8 2002.
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