"Do I What?" was commissioned for the exhibition In Your Dreams at the Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France in 1999. Panels of commercial wallpaper were screen-printed and flocked with a pattern of black chantilly lace. The installation includes a sound component based on the song "Chantilly Lace" by the Big Bopper.

Do I What?

Heaven's Door, (Himmels Tur)was composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen in 2006. Stockhausen composed this work in the last year of his life. Heaven’s Door, is played by a percussionist directly on a massive wooden door built specifically for the piece. 

Heaven's Door, (Himmels Tur) by Karlheinz Stockhausen

"Over the Rainbow" is a site-work that was created as part of 48hours/48rooms, an exhibition that took place in a rooming house in Montreal. The occupants who lived in these modest rooms had been evicted in preparation for the renovation of the upper floors of the building.

Miniature electronic musical movements were embedded in each hole. A high-pitched electronic version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" played when the viewer pressed the movement’s silver button. As viewers touched multiple buttons the result was a cacophony of sound. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" transforms from a song of longing and desire to one of chaotic noise.

Gisele Amantea