This is a piece for voice and disklavier (MIDI-driven piano), dedicated to Frank Zappa.
The text is a mildly scrambled version of a collage of Zappa quotes.
The disklavier is entirely driven by the voice sound via audio-to-MIDI in Max.
This recording was actually done with a virtual piano. It was submitted to be performed at the 2016 International Computer Music Conference with a disklavier, but not accepted.
Recorded in Arnhem, February 2016
credits
from Ten Chosen Pieces,
released December 4, 2020
Composed by Jaap Blonk, 2016
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