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Austrian composer Peter Ablinger digitized a recording of a child speaking and then programmed a mechanical piano to replicate the sounds. The video above is in German, but Hack a Day has provided a translation:
I break down this phonography, meaning a recording of something the voice, in this case -, in individual pixels, one can say. And if I have the possibility of a rendering in a fairly high resolution (and that I only get with a mechanical piano), then I in fact restore some kind of continuity. Therefore, with a little practice, or help or subtitling, we actually can hear a human voice in a piano sound.
The content of the speech is taken from the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009.
via Gizmodo | Composer's Webpage
That is way awesome! Reminds me of the guy who used to make a steel guitar talk, I think it was on Ed sullivan or something! This is way cooler tho, no effects, just the polyphany of the piano.
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This was great John. Perfect for the season. Thanks!
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Sorry, but that's totally badass.
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freeeeaaaaky
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Yeah, that's gonna show up in a horror movie soon. The dead child speaking from beyond the grave through the piano.
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Well, now I have something to accompany my recent dreams of robotic overlords...and this piano shall be their voice.
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That's freakier than Darth Vader!
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Very intersting and practical demostration of spectral decomposition and reconstitution, even in discrete frequencies (musical tones). Very nice
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The truth is we are all creative. And while some people are naturally more creative than others, we can all have very creative ideas.
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