Posted by Benjamin Roudenis on May 8, 2010 0 comments
The TAP3 can be used as a personal music player (by plugging in your headphones to the device), plays in ordinary compact cassette players, and can be connected to your computer and loaded with more songs via mini-USB (the device’s lithium-ion battery is also charged this way).
TAP3 is hand-finished with a yellow stripe, the sleeve inkjet printed, scored and hand cut, and the outer case is made from 100% recycled polypropylene in Scarborough.
Each device is numbered and constructed to order.
The TAP3 device comes with the dadahack album TAP3 pre-loaded on a custom 2gb SD-card.
Posted by Benjamin Roudenis on November 30, 2009 0 comments
Austrian composer Peter Ablinger came up with a way to connect a computer to this piano that analyzes human speech and converts it to key-tapping. It looks pretty great and is reasonably clear considering it’s a piano that’s “talking.” The speaking piano actually recited the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at the 2009 World Venice Forum.
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.
