Sentences with phrase «player piano»

In 1993, the artist scratched the surface of a huge rotating black disc while listening to music, following the rhythm with one hand and the melody with the other to create a record of his aesthetic response to music in Record Drawing (Conlan Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano Vol.

A Yamaha digital grand player piano performed the artist's attempt to play the Portuguese folk song «Grândola, Vila Morena» from memory — the song that played on the radio to signal the beginning of the Portuguese revolution in 1974.

This is a classic piano rag tune first written by Scott Joplin and used on original player pianos.

While many earlier player piano systems rely on midi data files (compressed, low - resolution data files) and others rely on even lower resolution files for playback, Steinway & Sons is recording at the highest resolution possible, and has created a proprietary data file format that captures the nuances and full range of emotion from each artist's performance.

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut < br / > Vonnegut is one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

With Music for Elephants, interdisciplinary artist Jenny Kendler algorithmically translates data predicting future poaching of African elephants into a score for a vintage ivory - keyed player piano.

Tim Hawkinson Record Drawing (Conlan Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano Vol.

The baby grand player piano filled the house with Christmas music and set the festive tone for the party.We even had five bathrooms so no one ever had to wait to use our powder room!

The Steinway Spirio is a new high - resolution player piano that provides an unrivaled musical experience, indistinguishable from a live performance.

In what Player Piano calls an «On the Spot» video, Grey played seven Nintendo songs on a computer for Belousova, who listened to them and then in seconds created classical arrangements of the tunes on her piano.

Pianist and composer Sonya Belousova makes up half of the musical group behind the YouTube channel Player Piano.

Fragmented musical scores realized on broken player pianos.

An old - fashioned player piano is combined with projected images of disused tools, weaving machines and their punch - cards (so much like player - piano rolls).

That's the tongue - twisting explanation for what Akko Goldenbeld's artful player piano (or pianola) is doing in this unusual video.

The piece consists of two player pianos facing each other, with a word processor separating and mediating the two instruments and a large loop of paper moving slowly between the machines, fueling a three - way conversation.

One of my daughters (while living in Portland) found the coolest old reddish shudders and used them on top of an old player piano.....

I added player piano music wallpaper on either side of the window, and I whitewashed the cedar table that Mr. Q built for us...

As part of their recent Indiegogo campaign to raise money for Player Piano's more ambitious videos, Tom Grey asked musical genius Sonya Belousova to recreate songs from Halo, Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Chross, Skyrim, and more after hearing them from the first time.

Gilles Deleuze's theory of communication as a rhizome — not growing root to tip but with multiple and mutating entry and exit points — was also critical to the work's conception; the word processor superimposes a text about Deleuze over the original player piano scroll, affecting the sound of the work as it passes through.

Artist Jenny Kendler algorithmically translates data predicting future poaching of African elephants into a score for a vintage ivory - keyed player piano — which concludes when the population count reaches zero.

«The Entertainer» played over the scene starting with the player piano in the Mariposa and cutting to Dolores riding on horseback as she gunned down three humans.

In recent years a wider audience has come to know his books — Player Piano; Cat's Cradle; Slaughterhouse - Five; Sirens of Titan; Mother Night; God Bless...

In this connection, Charles Goff once observed that some sermons are too smooth — like a player piano.

My first book, Player Piano, was about Schenectady.

In recent years a wider audience has come to know his books — Player Piano; Cat's Cradle; Slaughterhouse - Five; Sirens of Titan; Mother Night; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Breakfast of Champions; and others.

He was not a player, he was a player piano.

Colin and I also discuss the philosophies in Jaron Lanier's «You Are Not a Gadget» and Kurt Vonnegut's «Player Piano,» and how organizations, from advocacy non-profits to citizens groups like the Tea Party, turn their online networks into offline political influence.

Programmable textile machinery provided inspiration for the player piano and the early computer

He had written a computer program that essentially reads data as sheet music, much like a player piano.

For that reason, a machine similar to a player piano performs most songs on behalf of an organist.

what a great score... player piano.

It was FREE and it's a player piano!

Room for a player piano!!!

But Player Piano is different.

We have a large comfortable guest lounge with television, video casette recorder, player piano, library, log fire and air - conditioning.

There are 12 days left in Player Piano's campaign, so be sure to contribute!

So you're telling me that to have the most complete home audio system for older games I have to throw out my surround sound system and buy a player piano and drum set?

«The player piano operates on this really early form of binary code,» the artist says.

A person-less performance captivated more than a dozen viewers, who sat hunched, listening to a player piano.

They start upstairs, where Lucy Raven displays TV test patterns alongside a player piano.

Opening: «Guido van der Werve: Nummer zestien, the present moment» at Luhring Augustine The latest work in Guido van der Werve's series of numbered film and video pieces, Nummer zestien, the present moment is a three - channel video installation with a player piano.

RAVEN: That player piano really operates on this really early form of binary code.

MICHEL: A person-less performance had more than a dozen viewers sitting, hunching, listening to a player piano.

González digitally scanned the trees, a laser - cut the resulting musical «score» onto a player piano roll.

The slightly cacophonous, haunting music will be performed on a player piano in the gallery booth twice each day, at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Family is an assemblage that uses various materials: Frosted Flakes, cotton balls, salt, wood, a player piano, acrylic, oil, blue jeans, leather, a bamboo earring, a red rag, a fan, CDs and Easter grass.

In Garber's installation, the player piano rolls, cochlear satellites and layered prints are staccato exclamations of unheard sound.