May by Piano in the Woods

In May 2013 a piano was left outdoors in private woodland near Canterbury, UK. Each month for a year the composer Sam Bailey played the piano, improvising in response to the instrument’s changing state.

The Piano in the Woods project ended in May 2014 and now, 10 years later, material from the project will be released each month for a year leading up to a book launch, concert and exhibition in 2025.

MAY by Kat Peddie

before you begin you might venture
out somewhere might
clear a space for the thing that does not exist
yet to exist in. There will be
old material there will be
an arrangement there will be
something already there that says yes
it might be permissible
to start or
sit here a while & so you
might begin or know you are already begun
beginning

it might feel a little bare around the edges
might need some heavy lifting & so
forth & so
it begins