Jocy de Oliveira

This music-video piece denounces the declining state of classical music by throwing a piano into the sea as a symbol of high culture submerging. The experiment focuses a grand piano floating and drifting until it sinks. This video questions the artist's role in today's society and the piano as an icon that submerges, subverted by mass culture.

Few artists can claim the historical significance of Jocy de Oliveira. A pioneer of electronic music in Brazil — carrying a weight comparable to such towering figures as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen — she was also a brilliant pianist, performing as a soloist under the direction of Igor Stravinsky.

Filmed and recorded live during the premiere at the Carlos Gomes Theater, Rio de Janeiro, 2000.

Filmed and recorded at the Lagoa Rowing Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, 1988.

Filmed and recorded live at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, 2003.

Filmed and recorded live during performances at the Paulo Eiró Theater, São Paulo, 1994.

Recorded live during a performance at the Berliner Festpiele, MäerzMusik, in Berlin, 2005.

Filmed and recorded live at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in 1987.

Recorded live at its premiere at the Carlos Gomes Theater in Rio de Janeiro, 2006.