Years ago, I had a dream about a piano with a circular-shaped
keyboard, rather than the standard keys in a linear formation. I don't
remember anything else about that dream, but the strange keyboard
layout stayed with me.
I have always loved (for some reason I've yet to figure out) the
shape of large tree trunks as the roots flute outwards just above
ground-level. Maybe it's the way the roots resemble the shape of a hand
pressed against a floor with the fingers splayed outwards.
Whenever I've seen large trees in a forest or in various photographs,
they have always reminded me of huge pillars. Much like pillars you see
in old Roman and Greek temples.
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Thinking of temples and
combining that with some loopy keyboard design, it wasn't a huge leap
to change the keyboard to a pipe organ design. And when one thinks of
pipe organs, one immediately thinks of churches.
Carving a stage and pipe organ structure out of
the trunk of a tree (with surrounding smaller trees
serving as kind of church pillars) was the way to
meld these two elements together in a related way. |
