Tal Isaac Hadad

http://www.talisaac.com piano préparé, 2014

Tal Isaac Hadad presents ‘piano préparé’ (prepared piano), an installation piece, which aims to associate two distinct fields: boxing and piano playing. The sculpture reflects upon the kinesthetic experience formulated by Kurtág’s ‘Játékok’, the body as a form of intelligence, incorporating the body through music, and music through the body. Here, the sculpture positions the body in a different role in order to generate and express ideas about music. The piano is constrained with the attribute of the heavy bag used for boxing practice. The piece takes the contemporary musical tradition of the prepared piano to another era. Tal Isaac Hadad is a French artist. He lives and works in Paris. Tal Isaac Hadad affectionately reformulates and adapts sounds, in popular as well as more skillful emanations. His approach, which often involves an observation of the music scene or the way in which sound circulates in public spaces, could be likened to that of an ethnomusicologist. The artist fuels his research through fieldwork. Unlike most researchers he infiltrates a social group in order to invite its members to participate in the project. He participated among other things in the 2010 Venice Biennial of Architecture; Get it Louder 2012, Beijing; FIAC 2012 at Grand-Palais, Paris and Istanbul Biennale 2013.