February – July 2001
68” L x 52” H x 60” W
(Actual size of Baby Grand)

Music exists in time, Sculpture exits in space,
I have tried to jump this boundary with my Sculpture
During the six month construction time I listened to:
Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, Bach’s Goldberg Variations
(Played by Glenn Gould and Murray Perhia)

Rachmaninoff’s 2nd & 3rd Concerto’s

Beethoven’s Sonatas #14, 23, 27-32, and 3rd, 4th and 5th Piano Concertos
a Chopin Fantasy in F minor, Brahms’ 1st & 2nd Concertos

… And a little Tom Waits

Wishing to be able to play these great works… I have created this sculpture as my appreciation.

The conception and execution of my Sonata #1 was mentally and physically challenging. Feeling, visualizing, and solving spatial architectural problems.

I incurred a few injuries while working on this piece; a couple of bad burns and a very large bump on the head while bending the frame using leverage from a 20 ft. piece of 2” steel pipe. The fully photo-documented construction involved ~600 lbs of stock material. (Steel plate, bar and pipe that was forged and coerced into the shapes you now see; most of the piano was at one time red hot) A few broken clock gears, a real piano keyboard, hundreds of feet of immaculate TIG weld, an antique manometer from Paris, a thousand cubic feet of acetylene, a teaspoon of madness and a pair of steer horns.

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