Mark Dixon's Selectric Piano

Mark Dixon & Fred Snider made an interface between an IBM Selectric typewriter & a piano. There's a one-to-one correspondence between the 88 Selectric key positions & the 88 piano keys. Typing a typewriter key plays a note. Mark's friends Bart Trotman & Jodi Staley typed special texts that I'd created so that they'd play the Selectric Piano & I videoed the results w/ 2 camcorders. During the part where Bart's typing, I manipulated a sampler (w/ samples that I'd made) & a sampler/mixer. Since both the texts were unusual & formally very narrow focus, both Bart & Jodi found them very challenging to type. This short edit of a feature-length document of the process explains this some more & shows a bit of the whole project. For more on the Selectric Piano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gylEJcBzVmk&feature=related - June 18, 2010E.V. notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

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