I have a helplessness for forte-piano player , but I do n’t think I can call this Austrian cat a piano player : He does n’t act them , he make themtalk . Freakin ’ hell , here I am barely able to play the accordion .
It does n’t do it in real prison term , but there ’s a computing machine connected to this pianoforte which take apart human speech with the help of a composer and converts it to Florida key - tapping . It ’s look pretty great and is reasonably clear consider it ’s a piano that ’s “ blab . ”
You ’ll quickly notice that the video ’s in German , but fortunately Hack a Day ’s Astera came through with a rough translation of the narration to accompany your oohs and aaahs :
passably amazing , how all of a sudden the words of the Declaration become intelligible to a European Environmental Criminal Court . Wien Modern was one out of ten ethnical institutions enquire for an esthetic share to the event in Palazzo Ducale in Venice .
The ambitious end was to make this subject matter audible with musical mean , without falling back to a simple setting .
Berno Polzer : I cerebrate , its part intelligible , partially not . And it plays well with the limit of our mental synthesis abilities . That is , we get a line sounds that manifestly are n’t normal music , but neither they are language , and one could say that sometimes , a bridging befall . Personally , I reckon you’re able to empathize individual words even without sleep together the text , and the Eureka instant happens when you see the text , and suddenly , the language is there .
Yet another bridge : Miro Markus , an elementary school educatee from Berlin , narrate the textual matter for the performance : Youth as a promise for the older multiplication .
The Austrian composer Peter Ablinger transferred the frequency spectrum of the child ’s voice to his figurer ascertain mechanical pianoforte .
Peter Ablinger : I give way down this phonography , mean a transcription of something the voice , in this case - , in individual pixel , one can say . And if I have the possibleness of a rendering in a fairly high resolution ( and that I only get with a mechanically skillful piano ) , then I in fact bushel some kind of continuity . Therefore , with a small exercise , or aid or subtitling , we actually can pick up a human voice in a piano speech sound .
From voice to “ pixels ” to euphony back to speech . unbelievable . Now . Who ’s gon na make a talk trumpet ? [ YouTube ]
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