May 10, 2015
Requiem: “Passenger”
Passenger (shown here with Eight Voices and Peel’s Foe) is a sixteen foot-long wooden train trestle built to support an “O” scale train. A modified…
Requiem: Checklist
May 10, 2015
Requiem: “Erasure.”
Erasure (Catalog of Extinct Birds), viewed in a tiny monitor from a distance through binoculars, Erasure is a video work that depicts the act of writing…
May 10, 2015
Requiem: Flugel (Catalog of Extinct Birds)
Catalogue of Extinct Birds for one or more pianos
May 9, 2015
Requiem: Riverpiano
Riverpiano (Allegheny River, Pittsburgh 2005) Video In the performance, Pestel is playing a prepared grand piano and bird whistles on a 20’ raft floating…
Nov 1, 2014
Catalog of Extinct Birds: Flügel Variation
Play the scores--brief musical phrases-- created from the Latin names of extinct birds on the piano, or use the Piano Cluster Boards (PCBs). These brief…
Aug 4, 2014
Book Arts and the Environment
Book Arts and the Environment Skillman Library