[silence] silence Digest, Vol 49, Issue 16

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

dear alejandro,
you can also prepare the piano manually. like in the george crumb  
piece vox balaenae:
"Special effects, such as pizzicato playing, muted tones, production  
of harmonics, require that the strings be clearly marked by bits of  
tape with pitch labels. For pizzicato and harmonics, the tape should  
be placed on the dampers; for muted tones, on the front crossbeam.  
The following table of pitches includes all those to be specially  
marked. The strings marked with a 0 should have the precise nodal  
point indicated by a crayon mark or a tiny sliver of tape. Only 5th  
partial harmonics are used and the nodes are located near the  
dampers. (...) George Crumb was one of the great masters of playing  
inside the piano."

http://www.colleges.org/techcenter/music/modules/whalepages/ 
performance.html

or
gordon monahan's technique in "This Piano Thing":
"In This Piano Thing, seventy-three notes of the piano are prepared  
using materials of the traditional preparation repertoire: bolts,  
screws, broken chopsticks, rubber, weather-stripping, and vibrating  
nuts and washers. In some instances, medium-size (0.5 cm x 6.0 cm)  
eyebolts are placed in the strings of adjacent whole tones so that  
their 'eyes' are barely touching. When either of these whole-tone  
notes are sounded, a sustained jingling takes place, creating a kind  
of multi-level mechanical reverb-feedback system, in that a string  
attack induces further attacks between the eyebolts with the  
resulting sustained sounds feeding back through the strings to the  
soundboard."

http://www.gordonmonahan.com/piano_thing.html

kind regards,
ralph li
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/index.html

>> At 07:01 PM 6/23/2006, Alejandro Rojas-Marcos wrote:
>>> I just thought that using a computer would be expensive and  
>>> complicated,
>>> but maybe you are wright.

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