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PPP 

An insomniac man potters about, muttering. He sits at a piano and plays tunes.

(performed at the South Bank Centre in 2004, and played subsequently at the Clore Studio and Goldsmith's College.)

PPP begins in the silence of the dead of night in a room with a piano, a kettle, and the rhythm of a ticking clock. An insomniac perturbed European man in pyjamas, cannot sleep and potters about muttering to himself. He sits at a piano and with each turn of thought, each shift of weight, each in-breath he tinkles some tunes. As he plays tunes he sings along quietly to his playing. So quietly that the audience has to listen very closely to hear his song, and as they listen closely, they enter the dream world of the man. A world where there is no separation between patterns of thought, sound and feeling. The tunes he play and hums are at first childlike and fragmented then, emerge heartfelt songs in an unknown tongue, very foreign but strangely familiar. As the songs emerge he begins to turn out and directs his song towards the audience. PPP starts in a fictional room with a piano and ends in the real concert hall with the real audience as imaginary friends of the man. PPP is a journey in music from autism to contact, from insomnia to performance, from silence to sound, from sleep to awakening, flitting between imagination and reality.

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You could hear a pin drop.

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