SERIES 101: “diary of one day”

Date: December 27, 2022

Venue: Royal Ontario Museum

Sub-Venue: The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal

Architect: Daniel Libeskind

Architectural Style: Deconstructivism

My Thoughts: The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal Is Void Of Curves.

Thus, It Calls To My Mind, The Definition Of A Straight Line. A Straight Line May Be Accurately Described As “The Shortest Distance Between Two Points”.

Musically, My Mind Is Drawn To “The Twelve-Tone Technique” Of Composition, And In Particular, Arnold Schoenberg’s Suite For Piano, Op.25.

In The Film “32 Short Films About Glenn Gould”, Film No. 25: “Diary Of One Day”, Features The Music Of “The Gigue” From Schoenberg’s Piano Suite.

That “Short Film” Is Rendered In Black & White. It Depicts Fluoroscopic Images Of Several Bodily Functions. These Include Contrast Dye Entering The Coronary Arteries Of A Beating Heart, And Various Musculoskeletal Movements, Meant To Mimic Playing The Piano. These Include Movements Of The Skull, Cervical Spine, Shoulders, Thorax, Hands & Feet. These Movements Are Punctuated By Annotations Of Glenn Gould’s Blood Pressure Readings, And The Medications He Took Between 9:00am and 9:00pm Of That Day. Glenn Gould Suffered From Hypertension And Anxiety.

The Black & White Footage, and The Skeletal Movements, Made This Music Well-Suited For “Series 101”. The Dinosaur Gallery, Exhibiting Their Skeletal Remains, Is Mainly Located On Level 2, In The Lee-Chin Crystal.

Dedicatee: Glenn Gould (September 25, 1932 to October 4, 1982)

Glenn Gould’s Recordings Helped Shape Much Of My Musical Tastes Within Classical Music. These Include A Deep Love For The Keyboard Works Of Johann Sebastian Bach, And Especially A Love For Compositions Containing Fugues. Moreover, It Was Glenn Gould’s Recordings Which Kindled My Love For Music Composed Using “The Twelve-Tone Technique”.