This is the Norwegian composer, musician, and instrument builder Jo David Meyer Lysne (b. 1994)’s vision for a self-playing piano, also known as the player piano or pianola, a more than century-old piano variant equipped with a mechanism that allows it to play itself. The instrument, which predated the invention of the recording, allowed users the experience of live piano performances in their homes without having to lift a finger. In “For renstemt klaver” (“For justly-tuned piano”), Lysne joins a legacy of musical tinkerers developing the self-playing piano not as a means of reproducing what a human performer can do, but rather as a sonic world of its own, producing computer-enabled music that eludes human capability.
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