the curious codes of silence

This work combines the Lumatone keyboard (facilitating microtonal tuning) with a microtonally retuned electric piano, acoustic piano and ensemble. The work explores identity and experiments with tuning systems using this experimental instrument. It completes Goves’ three works inspired by The New York Trilogy by American author Paul Auster. This new work, combining real and virtual pianos, mirrors the shifts in identity of the story, in which a writer fully assumes the identity of a missing colleague – including appropriating his work and marrying his wife – then refuses to acquiesce when his colleague resurfaces.