The Typist: Purloined letters


 

«The Typist: Purloined Letters» is a piece for Typa-tune, which is a toy chime constructed at a typewriter. The Typa-tune was made to learn children to write on a typewriter.


The piece consists of a «musician/secretary» that writes down «The Purloined letter,» by Edgar Allan Poe on a Typa-tune. The piece refers to Lacan`s interpretation of the same short story. The performance has a duration of 68 minutes and was performed at Only connect festival, Oslo in May 2014.