SERIES 102: “diary of one day”, in colour

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.

Co-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”.

Co-Dedicatee: Ms. Abosede Akintan

As Is Usual For Me To Do, I Solicited Abosede’s Opinion Regarding “Series 101”. She Observed That On Her Smart Phone, It Was Hard To Distinguish One Detail From Another. In Music, We Call This “Noise”. Interestingly, This Is A Criticism Levied Against Compositions Using “The Twelve-Tone Technique”.

I Agreed With Her, And Provided “Series 102” As A Tonal Alternative To The Atonal “Series 101”.