54 stories & pictures about “Soho Square”

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1. Emily Evans   // Jul 7, 2009 at 9:54 am
   Hey Kev P! when ya playin again? loved the boogie woogie into riders on the storm medley ;o)
   Thanks for puttin so much stuff on the site... loving it ALL!
2. admin   // Jul 7, 2009 at 7:56 am
   Hi Neil
   All the pianos will be removed from the city on 14th July.
3. Clark   // Jul 6, 2009 at 7:41 pm
   Excellent location, piano not faring so well, but fun times all round only enhanced by marvellous chap to the right of this picture.
   

   
4. Neil   // Jul 6, 2009 at 3:01 pm
   Please take it away, it's not fun when you have to work in the Square and are forced to listen to it day in and day out for weeks on end
5. Pianocrasher   // Jul 6, 2009 at 10:35 am
   Luke Jerram's "Play Me I'm Yours" street pianos initiative is a reaction of a creative individual to the general rule, prohibiting anyone to play music in public places without special arrangement - no matter how skilful you are at playing your piano or how popular your music is with the audience.
   
   Any musician would have been stopped immediately by security outside this street festival.
   
   Camden based artist and professional musician Oleg Lapidus, aka the Pianocrasher proved the point more than once by playing music unexpectedly in public areas and being stopped by security.
   
   In 2008 he turned society's unacceptance of impromtu music performaces into a provocative creative trend, called Acoustic Graffiti Arts: video recordings of his own music performances and his visual art works, based on music stopped by security.
   
   
   Both projects: street pianos and acoustic graffiti arts share the same artistic vision - they encourage general public to create freely and to use public space as their playground.
   Pianocrasher is sincerely delighted to have come across a similarly thinking artist in the UK.
   
   Mr Lapidus considers "Play Me I'm Yours" project as a variation of his own Acoustic Graffiti concept and a manisfestation of Prohibitivism. It lets people use their creative abilities at places where they normally wouldn't have any chance to.
   

   

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