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Modded Pianos
pwhodges:
One of my son's concerts involved the singer chucking a load of ping-pong balls into two pianos while they were being played (she had initially had them in a bucket on her head, and then poured them slowly on the floor - they were symbolising the souls of the victims of the Tay Bridge disaster, and the piece was a setting of the great William McGonagall's wondrous poem on the matter).
The balls bounced around making a delightful noise, and were, of course, less predictable than a simply prepared piano. The same hall management also booked him to play some Cage, and then got all in a tizzy because of his preparing the piano, which they said might have damaged it!
Scandanavian War Machine:
ping-pong balls in a piano, i like that.
KvP:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Dec 2008, 16:09 --- The same hall management also booked him to play some Cage, and then got all in a tizzy because of his preparing the piano, which they said might have damaged it!
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Buh?
rynne:
--- Quote from: KvP on 02 Dec 2008, 14:13 ---Prepared pianos are delightful. Aphex Twin used a few on his Drukqs album, if I remember correctly.
John Cage 4eva.
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I was at this concert at the Smithsonian for their 300th Anniversary of the Piano tribute where one of the pieces was a Cage prepared piano composition. It was awesome. Then later fucking Keith Emerson decided he should play his ridiculously bombastic crap on the prepared piano, which was terrible :(
My friend and I noticed this old dude sitting directly in front of us hanging out with a young-ish couple in full goth gear. We were like, WTF? It turned out to be Bob Moog.
casull:
what about outmoding the piano?
http://technabob.com/blog/2007/08/09/chromatone-312-key-synth-laughs-in-the-face-of-88-keys/
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