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Circus Galop - Impossible Piano Piece

submitted by Paul Richey

(Fusionaut)
1 decade 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago

From BoingBoing: Circus Galop is a piece for player piano written by Marc-André Hamelin. It was composed between 1991 and 1994 and it is dedicated to Beatrix and Jürgen Hocker, piano roll makers. Its duration is approximately 4–5 minutes.[1] Scores of this piece are available through the Sorabji Archive.[1] Piano rolls of this piece are available from Wolfgang Heisig and Jürgen Hocker, who have recorded all three of Hamelin's player piano pieces on the MDG label and were released in April 2008.[2][3]
It is not possible to be played by humans, as at some points all the piano staves are played at the same time, and up to 21 notes simultaneously. It is used to test MIDI software to drive it to its maximum potential, such as Synthesia, or PianoMIDI.[4]

15 Comments

dystopianfuturetoday

hahahahahahaha..... awesome and hilarious piece.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by dystopianfuturetoday.

Double-Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, February 3rd, 2012 3:24pm PST - doublepromote requested by dystopianfuturetoday.

vaguely impressive buuuut mostly annoying.

ant

*geek *wtf

Adding video to channels (Geek, Wtf) - requested by ant.

Thanks for this. Inspiration for the next sift!

YAH!
http://videosift.com/video/Conlon-Nancarrow-Study-for-Player-Piano-No-7

Cocaine for player pianos is a hell of a drug.

dystopianfuturetoday

My favorite Nancarrow study: http://videosift.com/video/Conlon-Nancarrow-Study-for-Player-Piano-No-6 ^chingalera:

Thanks for this. Inspiration for the next sift!
YAH!
http://videosift.com/video/Conlon-Nancarrow-Study-for-Player-Piano-No-7

Chuck Norris could easily play that.

If you like this you should check out an American Photoplayer on these two sifts.

http://videosift.com/video/Ghost-Parade-Joe-Rinaudo-at-the-American-Photoplayer

http://videosift.com/video/Old-Timey-Music-Machine-The-Fotoplayer

Ghost had too much coffee.

That's nothing. Try playing this piece on the theremin!

That's terrible music. It's so dissonant and there are so many flats it's just. Ugh.

Ow, my freakin' ears!

After this performance, the piano wrecked the piano player.

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