Piano Hammer Drawings

Piano Hammer Drawings are drawings/musical scores and performance remnants, using the piano as a drawings instrument. The marks appear as intense smudges of black pigment on blank manuscript paper. Manuscript paper and carbon paper are placed behind the piano hammers and infront of the piano strings. When the keys are played, the physical impact of the hammers on the paper produced both a sonic and visual resonance. The absence of musical notation and clefs challenges conventional musical composition and interpretation. The drawings are visual imprints of an absent, transient gesture.