Spoken text for two pianos and piano strings, transducer, tape and magnetic fields. Written between 2019 and 2020 and performed in July and August 2020 by Rick Myers.

“This LP forms a performed index to a body of artwork called ‘Obstacle Corpus’ that encompasses drawing, writing, photographic and book works, video and sound. For the recording, I alternated between two pianos played at once, mainly with my index fingers, while performing a spoken text. The text was written in two parts, using the titles of 75 so-called ‘Obstacle’ artworks made during 2019, dispersed into a new text entitled ‘Field’ that was written in the form of a drawing. Tape recordings of the performance were exposed to magnetic fields and amplified back through a piano using electromagnetic and physical contact with its strings, making a circuit that occasionally emitted sparks while short-circuiting during the recording.”

Recorded by Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab, Easthampton, Mass.

Edited and mixed by Rick Myers at the Cabin Studio, Easthampton, Mass.

Additional magnetic fields by Madeleine Myers.