22.8.05
New Directions in Lounge Music
I went to lunch last Friday with some new colleaques. The restaurant had a grand piano that was outfitted with a device (several generations [technologically speaking] old) that sent MIDI signals to the piano, causing it to play standards and pop songs. For minutes at a time, however, the device would malfunction and send out MIDI signals that would play isolated chords (triads up through 9th chords) and brief (two- or three-notes) melodic fragments with long, pregnant pauses between them. I dropped a chip into the tip jar and wondered how much it got per Gig.
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How do you know it was a malfunction?
ReplyDeleteBecause the quality of the "interludes" was statistically outside the range of probability set up by the main selections.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I heard Phil Glass in the 70s I thought "malfunction", too.
ReplyDeleteYou may have misunderstood my point in this post.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think so. It was amusing.
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