S'ok, was taken in the spirit you meant it
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S'ok, was taken in the spirit you meant it
Actually think with a lot of modern technology it may well be possible for it play itself
Get a few computers, loaded, set them off on a random sequence of notes and at what point would they make meaningful music ? I'm sure the likes of Steve Reich has thought about stuff like that
Be quite easy to get something loaded on to a computer so it knows about notes and counterpoint, etc..
I think Sorabji wrote piano music that couldn't be physically played by a human?
Just googled it and it seems Nancarrow did music for the player piano. thought I knew it from somewhere
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Pat Metheny did an album recently that was supposed to have been played by automatons.
(Short documentary type thing)
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From what bits of the album I've heard, the concept is far more thrilling than the execution.
The opposite to the theory I posited above could be demonstrated by FZ where he turned to technology because he couldn't find musicians who could play his most complex pieces.
Before he died, he found some who could play it