The secret for one of the first magic effects in written history was translated into a Morse-code-based musical notation system to create this score for solo cello. It is performed in tandem with the original magic effect.

This work explores secrets that are hidden in plain sight, or in this case, plain listen.
 

New York City-based artist and technically-trained magician, Jeanette Andrews, created a musical notation key to transform traditional Morse code beep sequences into a musical notation system.
 

Andrews translated the text that describes the secret of a magic trick – one of the first to have been published in the West – into her Morse code musical notation system and then created a lush score for solo cello. What you will see is a performance which encodes the ancient secret in the form of music in tandem with a performance of the piece of magic that manifests that secret information in visual form. This is set amidst an installation of sheer curtains which includes a redacted version of the original 16th-Century text.

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