Sunday Synth Jam: Palle Dahlstedt improvises on Steinway piano, Moog PianoBar and electronics.
The Moog PianoBar, a collaboration between Moog Music and Buchla And Associates, is a three-piece accessory that attaches to your piano and lets you trigger electronic sounds via MIDI. The user can select sounds from the Moog PianoBar’s library of sounds or use its MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) capability to trigger any MIDI sound generator.
The Moog PianoBar is made up of the Scanner Bar, the Pedal Sensor and the Control Module. The Scanner Bar – a slim device that sits over the keys immediately in front of the piano fallboard – uses infrared sensors to register the keys’ motions without touching or affecting their feel. It can be set in place in a few minutes, without tools and without affecting the piano itself.
The Pedal Sensor is placed on the floor under the piano’s pedals, and registers their motions.
The Control Module – a small box placed at a convenient spot on the piano – ties the Scanner Bar and Pedal Sensor to a MIDI output/input, and includes a library of internal sounds.
via dannefors1966:
Palle Dahlstedt improviserar på Artisten 13 april 2011.
i'm sorry…but it sounded terrible.
Just my personal taste I spose.
Not into "newer" compositions then, huh? 🙂
Hm… It looks like an interesting technique of integrating electronics and piano (more elegant than e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_gylFCNsA).
Not into "newer" compositions then, huh? 🙂
Hm… It looks like an interesting technique of integrating electronics and piano (more elegant than e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_gylFCNsA).
Not into "newer" compositions then, huh? 🙂
Hm… It looks like an interesting technique of integrating electronics and piano (more elegant than e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_gylFCNsA).
Not into "newer" compositions then, huh? 🙂
Hm… It looks like an interesting technique of integrating electronics and piano (more elegant than e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_gylFCNsA).
Not into "newer" compositions then, huh? 🙂
Hm… It looks like an interesting technique of integrating electronics and piano (more elegant than e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_gylFCNsA).
Not into "newer" compositions then, huh? 🙂
Hm… It looks like an interesting technique of integrating electronics and piano (more elegant than e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_gylFCNsA).
Yeah, I enjoyed it but I can see where some dudes may not. Try smoking a joint first
WTF??? 🙂 too crazy for me too but an interesting instrument none the less.
That kind of music doesn't permit that awful sound recording…
I appreciate this technical approach for what it is and the difficulty of composing, learning and playing such a piece, but it's just a tad to cerebral for me. I like some of the older "modern" stuff better.
no thanks, I don't smoke…but I can see how it would sound good with brain chemistry altered. ;p
.-) Thanks for the feedback, guys! It's an improvisation, not a composition, even though programming such an instrument is a little bit like composing – you decide a space of possibilities, which shapes the musical outcome. The idea is to be able to control the electronic sound directly, just like I control an acoustic instrument, without being bound to preprogrammed beats/sounds/structures. I can change direction in a millisecond, to adjust to the other players (this concert featured two more musicians on related instruments). We now have versions for percussion, pressure sensors, klavier and even for the Guitar Hero controller (turning it into a concert instruments, with a number of commisioned pieces, and workshops with kids all around Sweden).
Very interesting stuff. I like that it's kind of "out there".