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http://tinyurl.com/ygasujw
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A "speaking piano"...
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Click This Link!!
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A "speaking piano" reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009. Unfortunately it's all in German, but what the piano says is all English, and it's really neat to watch.
UPDATE: Astera on hackaday wrote a rough translation:
Pretty amazing, how all of a sudden the words of the Declaration become understandable to a European Environmental Criminal Court. Wien Modern was one out of ten cultural institutions asked for an artistic contribution to the event in Palazzo Ducale in Venice.
The ambitious goal was to make this message audible with musical means, without falling back to a simple setting.
Berno Polzer: I think, its partially understandable, partially not. And it plays well with the limits of our construction abilities. That is, we hear sounds that obviously arent normal Music, but neither they are language, and one could say that sometimes, a bridging happens. Personally, I think you can understand individual words even without knowing the text, and the Eureka moment happens when you see the text, and suddenly, the language is there.
Yet another bridge: Miro Markus, an elementary school student from Berlin, narrated the text for the performance: Youth as a hope for the older generation.
The Austrian composer Peter Ablinger transferred the frequency spectrom of the childs voice to his computer controlled mechanical piano.
Peter Ablinger: I break down this phonography, meaning a recording of something the voice, in this case -, in individual pixels, one can say. And if I have the possibility of a rendering in a fairly high resolution (and that I only get with a mechanical piano), then I in fact restore some kind of continuity. Therefore, with a little practice, or help or subtitling, we actually can hear a human voice in a piano sound.
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Holger Hiller incredible Ohi Ho Bang Bang art performance 1988.
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handpainted animation film by fránçois for 'Hold On Twice" a song by fránçois and the Atlas Mountains, extract from the album Brother .
The wat...
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handpainted animation film by fránçois for 'Hold On Twice" a song by fránçois and the Atlas Mountains, extract from the album Brother .
The watercolours shows portraits of writers appearing in the paint: Franz Kafka, Marguerite Yourcenar, Albert Camus, Boris Vian, Cesare Pavese, and Olivier Adam.
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ICCMR's singing robots, Tom, Dick and Harry, were programmed at the University of Plymouth to sing Happy Birthday to celebrate the centenary of the...
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ICCMR's singing robots, Tom, Dick and Harry, were programmed at the University of Plymouth to sing Happy Birthday to celebrate the centenary of the Science Museum. The robots were on display at the Science Museum's Dana Centre on 10 June 2009.
More on ICCMR at Plymouth University: http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/
More on the Science Museum's Centenary celebrations:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
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thanks man