Speaking Piano enters the climate debate

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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.

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.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Piano
• speaking
• about
• the
• eath
• and
• climate

[Lstas]

The kid has a hard time pronouncing himself ... I bet if they used someone who can actually speak clearly, the piano would be more understandable

[just0watch0this]

AND WE PROCLAIM

THAT

ANOTHER WORLD

IS

POSSIBLE!!

SOMEONE's BEHIND YOU!!

[Alejandro4891]

this is going to replace the robot vocals in cynic

[wakod2002]

They need to have this thing set up so that you can send your audio to it, and they'll send a recording back. It'd give them a good way to make money off of the invention, and I'm sure anyone would kill (or pay) to be able to use that kind of sound in their own music.

[Soundingofftour]

very true!

[drmedwuast]

that's what I thought

[Jordmate]

Now that sounds like Michael Jackon, very cool

[LifeWithBabs]

so cool and creepy at the same time!

[MsPaparatz]

LMFAO

[timelrd]

If you were to watch this video without knowing what is trying to be said or even read any of the text you would have a hard time understanding the piano, but with the help of the text a voice can very clearly be heard and understood.