A rest while playing the instrument seems to have cheered up the little dog. However, while there's no music, we can "hear" the sound of the silk of the dress.

A musical gathering where composer Juan Bautista Pujol (1835-1898), at the piano, performs the play Fausto. The pianist is concentrated in his performance, surrounded by the score sheets. Over the piano, ghostly creatures emerge from nowhere. Two other figures listen absorbed by the music that fills the room. Sound occupies all the masterpiece.

The tiny figures in the orchestra, to the right, were painted almost with a certain inocente by the artist and they play their instruments as with the last breath. Sunk in a picture background, they seem to be emitting no sound. 

Very often, works close to our time compel us to seek the context they were done to understand and enjoy them. It's the challenge of Contemporary Art. Jorge Macchi's work is a stave sheet (the image of written music) but, instead of musical notes, it has nails. Those nails were stuck following the score of Nocturno, by French composer and minimalist pioneer  Erik Satié.

Satié's music es soft and romantic, so much so that the pianista bearely touches the keyboard. In opposition, Macchi, as he placed the nails, introduces brutal force into the stave. It's his way to refer to e motion through irony. It is, in fact, a joke. But we can also draw a comparison with reality: the music is to be performed by a piano, which is an instrument made of "hammers" (a good excuse for the artist to hit the nails to the stave).