#player piano

[vintage-tech]

A player piano and what a roll for it ("Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" so created after 1950) looks like.

#vintage #player piano #music #1950s #technology

[nofatclips]

🎵 Between the Hawthorn and Extinction by Stuart Hyatt with Player Piano and Julien Marchal from the collaborative album Ultrasonic by Field Works

📖 Between the Hawthorn and Extinction, a poem by Cecily Parks

🎬 Documentation of Stuart Hyatt creating audio field recordings of endangered, Indiana bats. Video by Anna Powell Denton

#somethingneweveryday #music #field works #stuart hyatt #player piano #jeremy radway #julien marchal #grover parido #corey denham #cecily parks #temporary residence limited #temporary residence ltd #temporary residence #rafael anton irisarri #rafael irisarri #music video #indiana bats #anna powell denton #bats #anna powell teeter #video

[godblessyoumrtrout]

'I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.' He nodded, 'Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.'

-Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

#literature #vonnegut #kurt vonnegut #player piano #book quotes #books

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 10/08/2023

Kirby Joins the Circus!

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume D

Ripped by berg8793

Requested by @circunflexonoa!

A very fun part of receiving requests for rips to cover is that I get to fall into new rabbitholes of rips with references I'm somewhat in the dark about. I was initially a bit skeptical about covering Kirby Joins the Circus! when I previewed the first few seconds of it, as I just thought it sounded like average circus music. But now, between this and DK Rap God - I worry that berg8793 might be a masochist?

As it turns out, the song being used for this rip isn't just circus music - Circus Galop is an interesting piece of music history in that its effectively the precursor to "Black MIDI", otherwise known as "Music with way too much shit going on at once". Its a song written for the piano, yet frequently features segments of FIFTEEN keys being played at once and an absurdly fast tempo. In truth, the song was actually one of several written to be played on "Player Pianos", which are pianos that play themselves when fed music data. In pushing to create music that could exclusively be played on these devices, Marc-André Hamelin created a song that's impossible to play alone and only barely possible to play with five expert pianists in session.

Now, you take one piece of absurdly hyperactive music history, and combine it with a game franchise that continues to be known for its hyperactive music - Kirby. That's what our good friend berg8793 set out to do here, rendering the entirety of Circus Galop in Kirby 64's unmistakeably hyperactive sound. I covered just how nice Kirby 64's soundscape is in a prior post - Aquadial - yet this is the complete opposite side of the spectrum. Where Aquadial was a pleasant, casual, fun ride through two adored N64 soundscapes, Kirby Joins the Circus! is effectively an exercise in insanity. Yet its far from a direct translation - berg8793 has done an excellent job here in sanding away the song's rough edges to make it far more listenable, althewhile incorporating several different parts of Kirby 64's soundtrack into the piece. Altogether, its a ridiculously high-effort piece with an equally ridiculous source, and its a listen you just can't help but be impressed by more than anything else.

#todays siivagunner #season 5 #siivagunner #siiva #berg8793 #kirby #kirby 64 #kirby super star #kirby dark matter #king dedede #black midi #player piano #piano #circus galop #nintendo #n64 #nintendo 64

[persistentvisionz]

December 1, 2023

Study for Player Piano No. 5 by Conlon Nancarrow

Part of Impossible Music at the Miller ICA

#Conlon Nancarrow #player piano #impossible music #miller ica

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Kurt Vonnegut #Player Piano #Vonnegut #life #perspective #awareness

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

ERIS, The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) on the 8.2-m Very Large Telescope (VLT)’s newest infrared eye on the sky, captured this stunning image of the inner ring of the galaxy NGC 1097. This galaxy is located 45 million light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Fornax. ERIS has captured the gaseous and dusty ring that lies at the very center. Credit Image: ESO.  [Scott Horton]

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“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. [...] Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

#Scott horton #Galaxy GC 1097 #quotes #Kurt Vonnegut #Player Piano #words and writing

[noosphe-re]

“He'd pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” ... “Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

#quote #Kurt Vonnegut #Vonnegut #psychology #psychiatry #creativity #art #writing #Player Piano

[karamazovapologist]

"Why did it have to happen?" It was one more hollow echo to the question humanity had been asking for milleniums, the question men were seemingly born to ask.

Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (p. 59)

#kurt vonnegut #player piano #vonnegut player piano #archived #short #existential crisis #ouch

[misserinmarie]

from Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut

I hold, and the members of the Ghost Shirt Society hold:

That there must be virtue in imperfection, for Man is imperfect, and Man is a creation of God.

That there must be a virtue in frailty, for Man is frail, and Man is a creation of God.

That there must be virtue in inefficiency, for Man is inefficient, and Man is a creation of God.

That there must be virtue in brilliance followed by stupidity, for Man is alternately brilliant and stupid, and Man is a creation of God.

#the ghost shirt society #ghost shirt society #kurt vonnegut #vonnegut #player piano

[schibborasso]

“the prince of player-piano” conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) in his mexico city studio

#composer #player piano

[taperwolf]

There was a song released in 1942 — very popular despite official censorship — titled "Strip Polka"; the lyrics involve a lovely girl who wants to retire to a nice farm somewhere, but in the meantime she wants something upbeat (and which can allow a quick exit), "So the band plays a polka while she strips". The Andrews Sisters' cover went to #2 on the charts despite censors taking it off the air after nine weeks. And you can find this song, and all this information, easily.

What I can't seem to find is a song I only ever heard on a piano roll — those long paper scrolls that player pianos use as their programs — at my grandparents' house. They had an old player piano and stacks and stacks of rolls, and one roll was titled "Strip Poker". It had lyrics printed on the roll alongside the holes for the notes — a very early karaoke technology — and was apparently a parody of or response to "Strip Polka"; these lyrics involved a lovely girl who just hates music, so when it's her turn on stage she performs a capella: "And the band plays poker while she strips".

The only other line I remember solidly is from one variation on the chorus: "'Take it off, take it off,' you can yell with the rest", and that line's present in the original.

As you may imagine from the title, simple internet searches are pretty useless in finding it; two plausible performances on YouTube turned out to be mistitled versions of the original, and there are a dozen instrumental renditions of generic burlesque music from revival bands and vintage "learn to strip for your husband" records with the same name. There's probably a registry of piano rolls out there, but the last one I found was more interested in transcribing the music to MIDI than in preserving publication history, and while that's a noble goal — you can play vintage songs that way on computers, synths, or even the modern Disklavier player pianos, and since piano rolls were cut from live performances, it's a fascinating way to let players from a hundred years ago still perform — it doesn't help in this particular case.

#music #player piano #andrews sisters

[sleepycatmama]

So yes, I have a player piano. Bought it secondhand many years ago in California. I adore player pianos. My Granddad used to restore player pianos and pump organs. Some of my favorite early memories are making music with him on that player piano, small enough that I had both feet on one pedal, pumping madly. He even opened it up and showed me how it worked and how the rinky-tink button (which I loved) worked.

I'm still hurt that after his death, I was shut out of everything and my request to either get or buy from the estate that piano and his collection of rolls. (From what Das has told me, apparently, my uncle resented him moving away, not like there were chemistry phd jobs in Aledo. Grr)

So the tuner was working on my piano, and I was putting together my wish list for more rolls at QRS. After he finished, he was eager to hear it as a player piano, as he has not commonly seen those. I put a roll in, the pedals and transport work fine, but there's too much sound from the pedaling, and the holes in the roll were not producing any music. So something that should be air-tight is not. He opened it back up, and spotted a loose tube, but he doesn't know player piano repair. I've asked him to ask around in the piano technical community and see if anybody could come work on it.

If anyone knows of someone who can do player piano repair in the central Minnesota area, do let me know.

Makes me miss Granddad. Not that he'd be here, but if he was here, he'd just say "well, sure", and open it up, and I'm sure he would know just what it needs.

#player piano #piano rolls #piano repair #fond memories #music for the musical dunce of the family

[madmarchhare]

I think player pianos are quite neat

#music #player piano #Youtube

[100yearoldcomics]

July 21, 1922 Harold Teen by Carl Ed: "Playing the Martyr Role for Cousin Horace"

[ID: Horace and Harold hang out with Lillums at her place. Horace stands around haughtily talking to an excited Lillums. Harold sits on a stool behind them, grumpily crossing his arms. /end] Horace: How about a little *whangdoodle? Lillums: Oh, goodie! I'd rather ★wrestle than eat! Harold: Aw! It's too hot. Let's sing on th' porch. * Jazz music ★ Dance

[ID: Horace looks meekly at Harold, who suddenly grows mirthful. /end] Horace: What'll we do for music? Lillums: Oh! Harold will play the piano for us! Harold: Sorry!! But I don't play!

[ID: Lillums happily pushes a reticent Harold towards an upright piano. /end] Lillums: You can operate th' player attachment. A CHILD can do that! Harold: Aw!! My *dogs hurt, honest! * Feet

[ID: Harold furiously pushes the foot pedals rhythmically as the piano plays itself. Lillums and Horace dance together behind him. /end] Lillums: Harold! Don't play so fast! Harold: Aw! I hate these mechanical pianos. They sound like a tin pan!

#newspaper comics #vintage #history #1922 #harold teen #transcript available #1920s #tw: jealousy #jazz age #player piano #third wheel

[gaykarstaagforever]

100 YEARS OF AI STEALING JOBS FROM REAL ARTISTS!

#player piano #scott joplin #this is what robots looked like in 1922 #Youtube