​Aeolian Piano
2017
20'23"
35mm film transferred to digital media
Developed with Hughes Meyer Studio
Commissioned by White Noise
Supported by Arts Council England

Aeolian Piano is one of eight works commissioned by White Noise to mark the departure of the BBC from the iconic BBC TV Centre in Wood Lane. It shows a grand piano suspended by a crane and floating in a circle high above the BBC Television Centre. The circular structure of the BBC TV Centre embraced the world and reached out to it, with the BBC aspiring to be a global voice. It also looked inward, suggesting the BBC as 'the living room of the nation'.Over the building the sound of wind playing in the strings is ethereal and otherworldly. It is disembodied, fragile and vulnerable, singing a swan song to the departed BBC below. This departure is more than just a relocation; it is the departure of a vision, however misguided at times, replaced by Capital, luxury developments, self-interest, bubble news. The cranes supporting the piano are symptomatic of the cranes probing the sky all around London. They are harbingers of new skyscrapers and apartment blocks about fill the sky and turn it into real estate. They will change the horizon both physically and in terms of society's view of itself.