The analogue instrument piano and its eighty-eight keys or pitches form the framework of the joint programme. The instrument is measured, recorded and deconstructed acoustically and optically: all the strings of the piano are excited, recorded, digitally stored and later transformed in various ways. Parallel to this acoustic process, the piano's sound-box (wooden body, steel frame, strings, keyboard, etc.) is measured by means of hand drawings and micro-camera recording and transferred onto the level of the image.
In this way the piano becomes a sound and image generator, on the one hand an electronic sound reservoir in the form of samples and a potential optical projection reservoir in the form of drawings and recordings, on the other. This results in an interaction and reciprocal influence between the levels of image and sound.
Nikolaus Gansterer: video & live drawing
Katharina Klement: conception & piano & electronics
Josef Novotny: piano & electronics
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