Twinny Piano

Here’s what they are up to lately: they both sit down at the piano bench and, immersed in total concentration and complete sincerity, they – together – play out a complex piece of impromptu piano music. They make it up, entirely on the fly, without ever once glancing at each other, and without uttering a word. The music ebbs and flows – somehow effortlessly – between quiet and loud, slow and fast, soft and hard, gentle and dramatic. It, at once, seems to have no structure and yet be fully structurally intact. The whole time they are playing they are recording their performance on one of their iPods. The pieces range in the vicinity of 8-12 minutes. In their view it seems that the longer the better. When they are done playing the piece on the piano (how they know when they will both, in unison, end it, I’ll never know), they then, gratifyingly, play their recording back to themselves, listening intently (and making anyone else who will listen listen too). And then they run back to the piano bench to do it all again. And again. And again. And again.