Hannah Wasileski

Virtuosic

A four-screen video piece which falls somewhere in between the boundaries of performance and installation art. Four musicians were recorded playing their parts of the Allegro from Schubert’s Death and the Maiden in isolation from each other, only coming together to form a string quartet in the virtual realm of this project. Through recording each player’s performance separately, the four parts become unrestricted by the score of the original quartet, and are at liberty to fragment and disperse, and recompose themselves – sometimes in relation to the score and sometimes with total disregard to Schubert – in order to create an experimentally estranged rendition of the movement.

This virtual representation of a famous Schubert quartet strives to open out the horizons of the interplay between musical performance and the visual arts, as well as to transcend traditional notions of classical music through its creative expression in an alternative medium.

Hannah was born 1985 an American national and raised in Berlin, Germany. She graduated with an American High School Diploma in 2003. In autumn 2001 she participated in a cultural exchange programme and spent one semester in New York City, attending LaGuardia High School of Music, Art, and Performing Arts. From 2004 until 2007 she studied BA (Hons) Music and Visual Art at The University of Brighton, and graduated with First Class Honours.