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Aaron Waller, Dada-Surrealism Assemblage

Aaron Waller created a curious composition from a box of found antique player piano parts. The found objects were in his father’s garage, not surprising, his father spent part of his career being a piano tuner, including repairing and rebuilding pianos. The leftover pieces were kept as potential replacement parts for a future repair. Now the pieces were being reassigned to an art assemblage. An assemblage is art created and made by assembling elements often of everyday objects that have been scavenged by an artist or especially purchased for an art project. In this case the box of found objects were somewhat curated. All the objects found in the box were old elements from a pneumatic player piano. Beyond the box of piano parts, Waller expanded the composition by adding his grandfather’s signed old sheet music and an old picture frame from his grandmother’s pile. All the found objects were arranged to compose - “ The Eccentric Conductor - Opus One .” The Eccentric Conductor -