Scores for piano with asinnajaq

asinnajaq brings piano piece to Carnegie Music Hall on Saturday, October 31, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM. It's a participatory performance, which is a polite way of saying you're part of the show: asinnajaq asks the audience and collaborators to respond to a selection of their photographs through music, so the room ends up reading images through sound.

Asinnajaq is an artist, filmmaker, and curator who works with text scores—written instructions that invite open-ended interpretations and enactments rather than a fixed set of notes to follow. That's the engine behind piano piece. Instead of a traditional concert where you sit and listen to a finished work, the performance builds around the room's response to the photographs. It's a slow, collaborative process of translating a visual image into a sound, and since the interpretations are open, the music changes depending on who's in the room.

If you're already spending the day at the museum, there's a second piece to see. asinnajaq's qamutik piece is on view in the galleries as part of the 59th Carnegie International, so you can catch the photographs in the museum before they're read aloud in the hall.

piano piece runs from 2:00 to 3:30 PM on Saturday, October 31, at Carnegie Music Hall, and admission is free.