Performer: Susan Parenti
Format: Music/Theatre Performance

Unentitled is an attempt to invite a kind of self-referential turn in having the piano player speak, while playing, a bunch of sentences that might come to generate characters, who might interact to form scenes, which might eventually create the sense that the person at the keyboard is playing a non-speaking role: a listener.

Theatrically, the keyboardist—demonstrating an antique instrument in the sci-fi museum exhibit, sitting in the street with evicted belongings, playing the wedding reception, tuning a homeowner’s piano, getting distracted by new radio in the practice studio, typing a company press release about downsizing in the steno pool—undergoes a transformation of scenic context implied by the various voices. The identity of the sitter at the keyboard becomes reinterpreted by the spoken texts The voices specified in the score of Unentitled are, in order of first appearance: museum guide, Max Weber, mover, voiceover, cop, hubbub, stenographer, expletive news, grammar news, punctuated news, metanews, News from Nowhere, piano owner.