Celeste Boursier-Mougenot

Conceptual artist Celeste Bouriser-Mougenot has programmed Paula Cooper's gallery computers to perform live music when the keyboards are typed on. Each key is given its own unique note on a scale. Here is an example of what happens on a Saturday afternoon.

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Entertainment

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• Paula Cooper Gallery
• contemporary art
• art gallery
• New York City
• Chelsea

[KameliaSembve]

Tell me, please, what is the purpose of this thing? For what do you do it? Just to surprise people or something else? What motivates you to do the work that is not beneficial financially? Thanks. I saw your work variations and I liked it!

[quotza]

Horse shit

[guipuz]

great paintings

[lubaluba56]

dis is some next rubbish

[beezedtoo]

it would be good to hear a week day to hear the difference between them. i imagine it is manic during the week, if anyone has a week day they should upload it

[0neweak]

this is awesome.

[LittleCrowling]

@collodiallofi Not the keyboard of the piano (as there's obviously no one there) but to computer keyboards that are probably being used by staff in the gallery, ie; the receptionist. So instead of listening to 'tap, tap, tap' as someone types, it's being reinterpreted as sound with each key on the keyboard not necessarily representing the note they're called, say the letter "a" versus the note "a," but whatever the artist decided.

So it's not exactly about communication, but redefining it.

[kissingkitten]

And I wonder if what the same sentence would sound like typed out in French as opposed to English?

[kissingkitten]

I'd like to hear an essay or perhaps a poem. This sounded like perhaps only the spacebar or a short word.

[TheCactusjack1]

colladiallofi is a dumbass.

it seems pretty clear to me.