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Schlagwort: Piano

Ein sprechendes Klavier

Ein normales analoges Klavier, das von einer computergesteuerten mechanischen Maschine gespielt wird, und es klingt, als würde jemand sprechen. Deus Cantando ist das Werk des Künstlers Peter Ablinger. Er nahm einen deutschen Schüler auf, der einen Text rezitierte, und komponierte dann eine Melodie für den mechanischen Spieler, die wie die Rezitation klang. Jason Nobles darüber:

This is not digital manipulation, nor a digitally programmed piano like a Disklavier. This is a normal, acoustic piano, any old piano. The mechanism performing it consists of 88 electronically controlled, mechanical “fingers,” synchronized with superhuman speed and accuracy to replicate the spectral content of a child’s voice. Watching the above-linked video, it may seem that the speech is completely intelligible, but this is partially an illusion. The visual prompt of the words on the screen are an essential cue: take them away, and it becomes much harder to understand the words. But it is still remarkable that the auditory system is able to group discrete notes from a piano into such a close approximation of a continuous human voice, and that Ablinger was able to do this so convincingly using a conventional instrument (albeit, played robotically).


(Direktlink, via Kottke)

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Album-Stream: Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan – Tales from the Loop (Solo Piano Version)

Piano Soundtrack des Tages.

Tales from the Loop is a 2020 American science fiction drama based on the artwork of retro-futurist Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. The series follows the interconnected lives of the residents of the fictional town of Mercer, Ohio. Mercer is home to a center for experimental physics and its underground facility known as the Loop. The drama unfolds against a score of an almost static beauty composed by Philip Glass and Paul Leonard-Morgan.
The original score was well-received, especially by fans, and immediately there was an online groundswell of hundreds of piano renditions of the music by amateurs and professionals alike. Leonard-Morgan was well aware of the tributes and immediately set about arranging and recording a number of selections from the score for solo piano for himself.


(via Kottke)

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Mit Großmutters Klavier-Kassetten Musik produzieren

A Last Picture From Voyager hat einige Kassetten, die seine Großmutter einst während ihres Klavierspiels von ihrem Klavierspiel aufgenommen hat. Er hatte dann die tolle Idee, jene Aufnahmen dazu zu nutzen, daraus neue Musik zu produzieren. So richtig Old School mit 4-Spur-Tascam-Rekorder und so. „Emotional Memory“. Voll schön.

When I found an old cassette with some recordings of my grandmother playing the piano, this was first an emotional moment. Few months later, I thought I might create music using some parts of her recordings. Of course and first, I made a tape loop, then thanks to a new piece of gear, the Arturia Microfreak and it’s Sample function added to the V5 firmware, I was able to sample a note from her piano recording and to play with its original sound ….


(Direktlink)

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