Midterm Notes for Matt Standeven from Mike Toaste

• Must be clear as to the contrast in which the metaphor is derived.
• Disintention / Intention
• Metaphor: Is the piano mechanism a metaphor?
• Opening of the Film was good but it went too long
• Trying to suspend two opposite emotions / ideas.
• Quote should be some aspect of contemporary thought: Two opposite ideas can be suspended against on-another
Toward the end:
• Imposing opposite program upon an already programmed space
• Confused about what the piano is supposed to do
• Interior of theater superimposed on object / ruin
• Nature of frame in ruins
• Demolition as performance
• Issue of play, in busses, piano vs. function or work
• Touch of piano vs. touch of demolition
• Theater and factory
• Again: Typewriter vs. piano. Touch, work, play
• Functional / Disfunctional
• Look at Matta-Clarke
• But there is something “interestingly different”
• Ruin is symbol, but is not an interior view
• Position outside an object vs. inside.
Notes: To what degree is the object unfunctional? Interior functional?”
• Piano is too literal
• Piano note is connecting metaphor between empty theater and ruin
• Mechanism of piano is an object but the sound is interiority
• Factories and leisure vessels
• Say less in simpler language