At the World Venice Forum 2009 this summer (a conference on environmental issues and international law, organised by the International Academy of Environmental Sciences, supporting the establishment of an international/European environmental criminal court) Austrian composer Peter Ablinger presented “Deus Cantando” – a player piano ‘reading’ a child’s recitation of the “Declaration of the International Environmental Criminal Court”, written by Nobel Peace Laureates Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and the Dalai Lama:
Ablinger transferred the frequency spectrum of the childs voice to his computer controlled mechanical piano so that “with a little practice, or help or subtitling, we actually can hear a human voice in a piano sound” – and the result is certainly compelling, if weirdly spooky, no? You can see the entire video on Wien Modern’s facebook page.
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