4’33” Is the Only Piece I Can Play on Piano est une partition polyphonique présentée à l’aide de la technologie de conduction osseuse. Sous l’influence des théories de John Cage sur le silence, en particulier sa célèbre pièce 4’33”, cette pièce est inspirée par la démarche de Pina Bausch où elle pose des questions à ses danseurs et utilise leurs réponses pour créer des chorégraphies. 

Les participants du projet ont soumis des réponses aux questions telles que « Que pouvez-vous dire dans une autre langue ? », ou « Comment se tenir à côté de quelqu’un qui n’est pas là ? ». L’objectif était de créer une expérience polyphonique et multigénérationnelle qui rassemble des voix disparates. Ici, l’artiste existe dans les silences, dans la chorégraphie des voix.
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4’33” Is the Only Piece I Can Play on Piano is a polyphonic score presented using bone conduction technology. This piece was inspired by Pina Bausch’s process of asking her dancers questions and using their answers to create choreographies and by John Cage’s theories of silence, especially his famous piece 4’33”.

Contributors to this project submitted answers to questions that ranged from the straightforward, “What can you say in another language?”, to the more surreal, “How do you stand next to someone who isn’t there?” The goal was to create a polyphonic, multi-generational experiment that brings together disparate voices while the artist exists in the silences, in the choreography of the voices.

Vanessa Moeller’s poems and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals including The Fiddlehead, Prism International, The Antigonish Review, CV2, and The Pottersfield Portfolio and have won several awards, including the Atlantic Poetry Prize and an honourable mention in the poetry category of the 2010 National Magazine Awards. Her first poetry collection, Our Extraordinary Monsters, was published by Signature Editions. Her work has also appeared in anthologies by Guernica Editions, Baseline Press, Frog Hollow Press, and Owl’s Head Press. She has worked on Qwerty and The Fiddlehead and as an associate poetry editor for Goose Lane Editions. She completed her MA in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. She now lives in Moncton, New Brunswick.

“Vanessa wrote on the white wall with red marker.” This diary entry was written about Vanessa Moeller when she was just one; it was a portent of things to come. Now as a writer and passionate advocate for literacy and the arts, she doesn’t write on walls (much) anymore, but her words do occasionally appear on a billboard or two.