5 Percent Piano is a sonic urban intervention inspired by the practice of graffiti. Everytime someone passes by the piano, a playful audio response is triggered, inciting passers-by to stop, ponder, explore, interact, and show some rage.

The audio fragment was extracted from the Trump-May news conference on June 4th 2019 when the US president Donald Trump visited the UK. And it goes like “5 percent, to 10 percent, to 15 percent, to 20 and then to 25 percent” referring to the tariff rates President Trump was suggesting to impose on Mexico. Hence the title "5 Percent Piano".

5 Percent Piano is presented as a similarly augmented poster at the Halfway to the Future Symposium, University of Nottingham, UK.

More details can be found in the corresponding publication here.