Talking Piano – Sound Arts 21

As my piece has to do with silenced voices I have been looking at ways to construct metaphors around the voice. Using it’s texture as an instrument by sampling is a fairly popular approach, but how about using it as information to control a different instrument? Peter Ablinger is exploring this in his extensive Quadraturen (“Squarings”) series. According to his website, the way this algorithm works is as follows: ‘1) The first step is always an acoustic photograph (“phonograph”). This can be a recording of anything: speech, street noise, music. (2) Time and frequency of the chosen “phonograph” are dissolved into a grid of small “squares” whose format may, for example, be 1 second (time) to 1 second (interval). (3) The resulting grid is the score, which is then to be reproduced in different media: on traditional instruments, computer controlled piano, or in white noise. The reproduction of “phonographs” by instruments can be compared to photo-realist painting, or – what describes the te

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• Jaime Redondo Yuste
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