MEDIATHEK

Tame Your Man is a ‘living music sculpture’, a theatrical work composed for piano, electronics, rope bondage artist, and narrator(s). It is my first work dealing directly with my sexuality as a gay composer, and my experience of masculinity and power roles within gay culture. The piano music for the piece is comprised of 12 move- ments that roughly follow the traditional ‘circle of fifths’. Stylistically, militaristic pounding and dance club-like movements open the performance and soon become transformed, ending in slower, ecstatic meditations. Over the course of the work, the pianist gets progressively more bound to his instrument, and the piano writing purposefully reduces the range of motionof the hands on the keyboard. The opening movements use a full span of the keyboard, and the last movement allows only the outermost keys to be reached.