![]() ![]() In Piano Hero this configuration is "updated" and placed in today's context, using some of the typical artefacts of the 21st century: the keyboard now is an electronic one, the computer serves as the transmission and the strings are played by a virtual pianist -the avatar of the pianist of flesh and blood sitting on stage- while the wooden resonating body is substituted by a set of electro-mechanical speakers.īut not only the "piano" is recontextualized. The wooden body of the piano amplifies the vibrations of the strings when they're hit by a hammer. The "modern" grand piano, perfected in the nineteenth century, consists of a keyboard, a set of metal strings and an ingenious mechanism of hammers and dampers, which serves as the transmission between the pianist's muscles and the strings. Source: J.Blais, J.Ippolito, At the Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson, 2006 (p.58) Suddenly, a shift in the system (immunological or ideological) occurs, and nothing remains the same." ![]() "If something startles the player out of immersion and into reality, out of illusion and into insight, then we have a moment of arrest remarkably similar to the instant when an antibody latches onto a virus. This mental state is frequently accompanied with spatial excess, intense focus, a distorted sense of time, and effortless action." Self is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment, often artificial. "Immersion is the state of consciousness where an immersant's awareness of physical Program notes Piano HeroĪn immersive cycle for midi-keyboard, grand piano, live-cameras, video and live-electronics (2011-…) Stephane Ginsburgh performing "Piano Hero #1" at Darmstaedter Ferienkurse 2016. ![]()
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