by Craig Muderlak, Western Editor of Transience

I tensioned piano strings across a room with wine bottles strung on them. The wine bottles worked to tune the strings by sliding them along the strings.  I made handmade paper sculptures that were attached to the wine bottles and worked as amplifying apparatus.  The strings were played either by hitting them with handmade sticks or bowing with violin bows.  I also played a handmade instrument built into a table where a base string is tensioned from my feet to a cinder block and then tuned with a beer bottle used as a fret.  Other instruments in the shot include guitar strings tensioned across the room heater and tuned with small glass bottles used as frets and additional noised made by brushing and tapping the paper sculptures.  Also, one of the performers tensioned a base string by standing on the string attached to a stick and then leveraging the string upward to created tension.

Craig orchestrated this performance and photographed the set last year in Boulder, Colorado