Eva-Maria Houben: works for piano

the sound of the piano decays.

it cannot be sustained. I let it loose time and again.

it appears by disappearing; starting to disappear just after the attack.

in disappearing it begins to live, to change.

the piano: an instrument, that allows me to hear how many ways sound can disappear.

there seems to be no end to disappearance.

I can hear, how listening becomes the awareness of fading sound.

 

Eva-Maria Houben