Performance of 'Sonos Civitatem, MMXX'
Collaboration between the Maltese Composer, Mariella Cassar-Cordina and me.
Video, digital score and live piano with Tricia Dawn Williams was made possible through a grant from Arts Council Malta.

UN/MUTE Exhibition, Austrian Cultural Forum NY, 2021
Photo by David Plakke

Video created from high res reproductions of frottages
made possible by a grant from Arts Council Malta, 2021
'Affordable Health Care for All' DETAIL, 2020
Frottages are made by using stitched everyday ephemera, shown below.
Found object, thread, 2020
A stitched seed packet is used to create a frottage. The stitch is raised through brocading and creates the texture to make a rubbing.
'Affordable Health Care For All,' DETAIL
2020
carbon frottage, acrylic, espresso on Shoji Paper, mixed media 36" x 24"
Photo documentation by Robert Staudinger
Communicating through my medium to Mariella over Zoom.
Recording the sound of stitching for her to use.
Virtual Project '10001' organized by Undercurrent Gallery, 2020
Communicating through her medium to me over Zoom.
Mariella and Tricia use the piano strings to make sound.
Virtual Project '10001' organized by Undercurrent Gallery, 2020
Isolating the sound of a string visually.
Red carbon frottage from house door layered with manhole cover.
2020
'Sonos Civitatem, MMXX,' 2020
Composition by Mariella Cassar-Cordina
Communicating through my medium over Zoom.
While making a rubbing of the radiator, I record the sound.
Virtual Project '10001' organized by Undercurrent Gallery, 2020
Rubbing from the (above) Radiator projected through video.
'Sonos Civitatem, MMXX'
UN/MUTE Exhibition
Austrian Cultural Forum NY, 2021-22
Photo Documentation by David Plakke
'Fern Wärme Wien'
The red carbon frottage from the radiator (above) is one of many rubbings that make up this image. A faint map of NYC
makes up the background shapes by using acrylic and various inks and natural washes.
36" x 24" Shoji Rice Paper
Photo documented by Robert Staudinger
Back of the piece, 'Fern Wärme Wien,' DETAIL
Photo documented by Robert Staudinger
Working on the editing process of the high res version of 'Sonos Civitatem, MMXX' in Malta. Thanks to a generous grant for the video collaboration from Arts Council Malta, Mariella and I were able to move away from the iPhone version of the video. Their funding supported high res images of my frottages shot by Robert Staudinger. We then could use those images to make a video.
Image: (left to right) Composer, Mariella Cassar–Cordina, Video Editor, Josmar Borg, and me, 2021
From Virtual to Analog, 2021
Malta
'Kein Trink Wasser,' 2020
36" x 24" Shoji Rice Paper
1 of 9 frottages created together with Mariella Cassar–Cordina organized through Undercurrent during the 10001 Virtual Project
Photo documented by Robert Staudinger
Photo documented by Robert Staudinger
'Sonos Civitatem, MMXX'
The first video version of the project was shot with an iPhone.
Upcoming -a catalog also funded by Arts Council Malta.
2022
Pianist, Tricia Dawn Williams
Image courtesy of ACFNY


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