Like
all other cathedrals, Holy Trinity has no doorbell. Visitors and worshippers
may freely come and go. The redbrick cathedral fills with enforced sounds of
free-form piano. Even his silent five-minute arrival becomes part of Matt Mitchell’s
abstract expressionism. He tinkles, power-chords, cascades, machine-presses…
The pianist has travelled from the city that never sleeps. This is due in part
to millions of doorbells. Is that a visitor, a worshipper, or a travelling
salesman? Time out now, no need for anxious questions this November, his sounds
his gift to cathedral silence and attentive visitors. There are jackhammers,
taxis, ship-horns, chatter, doorbells…
Drawing of Matt Mitchell playing the grand piano in Wangaratta Cathedral, by Bridget Harvey
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