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D10827
09.09.2012
Stajuda - Katarzyna Kozyra
DAAD
When my professor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, who was a very important person for me, was dying in the same hospital where my father died I got the idea to sit naked on a naked dead body and play on a harpsichord. Stajuda, that was his name, ...

When my professor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, who was a very important person for me, was dying in the same hospital where my father died I got the idea to sit naked on a naked dead body and play on a harpsichord. Stajuda, that was his name, also introduced me to classical music. Actually, I became interested before then, but as he had a big collection of vinyl records with classical music I could borrow them from him. At that period I was interested in 17th and 18th century harpsichord music so the piece that inspired me was a short, funny but incredibly fast Louis Couperin piece for harpsichord. Although I had no education in music at all and it was not affordable for me to rent a harpsichord. I bought a piano and started to learn how to execute that piece that had to be played in a very fast mechanical way. I practiced for several hours a day... The project did not work out because I could not find any dead body. Me and my friends were looking for one but it was not as easy as it seemed to be......also I reached the limits of tempo in executing this piece.

When my professor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, who was a very important person for me, was dying in the same hospital where my father died I got the idea to sit naked on a naked dead body and play on a harpsichord. Stajuda, that was his name, ...

When my professor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, who was a very important person for me, was dying in the same hospital where my father died I got the idea to sit naked on a naked dead body and play on a harpsichord. Stajuda, that was his name, also introduced me to classical music. Actually, I became interested before then, but as he had a big collection of vinyl records with classical music I could borrow them from him. At that period I was interested in 17th and 18th century harpsichord music so the piece that inspired me was a short, funny but incredibly fast Louis Couperin piece for harpsichord. Although I had no education in music at all and it was not affordable for me to rent a harpsichord. I bought a piano and started to learn how to execute that piece that had to be played in a very fast mechanical way. I practiced for several hours a day... The project did not work out because I could not find any dead body. Me and my friends were looking for one but it was not as easy as it seemed to be......also I reached the limits of tempo in executing this piece.