Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 12, 2026

An Avatar of Yuja Wang, a Basement Bunker, and Eleven Out of a Hundred

Pierre-Alain Giraud's installation puts the audience in headsets in a basement bunker under the Royal Festival Hall, free to walk around a pre-recorded avatar of Yuja Wang as she plays Ravel, Stravinsky, Bach and six other works. Warnings appear if you get too close to the piano. Eleanor Knight found the pianist herself curiously incidental to the whole apparatus, objected to the imagery and the heavy-handed setup, and scored it eleven out of a hundred. Her conclusion was that the pictures are better with your eyes closed.

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