Lounge Act

Poet, critic, and artist Wayne Koestenbaum performs piano miniatures (Scriabin, Chopin, Fauré, Milhaud, and Poulenc) while incanting spontaneous Sprechstimme-style soliloquies. Koestenbaum improvises words that stream in correspondence with the score’s musical phrases.

This LP is a live performance recorded on Friday October 16, 2015, at REDCAT gallery as part of the "Hotel Theory" exhibition curated by Sohrab Mohebbi in collaboration with Ruth Estévez.