Music from the Harpsichord House ( reel ) is an installation and series of concerts that exist in the binary of in-and-out of performance.  During the concert, the sculpture becomes the instrument and performer, the painting becomes the program, the video becomes the live visual, the stairs become the seating, and the gallery becomes the venue.

The sculpture is a house constructed around a functioning harpsichord—a baroque keyboard instrument that predates the modern piano—such that the keyboard and its potential performer are hidden inside the house while the strings remain outside. When not in concert, a silent video plays periodically, the only hint of performance besides the chairs that are arranged facing the harpsichord that function as seating.  During a performance, the player’s face is live-projected on the side of the house. The audience members are faced with a choice: to see the face of the performer on one side, or to clearly hear the music from seating opposite.  Fifteen musical compositions were commissioned (one by myself) for the harpsichord house that were performed over four concerts.