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7 Oct 2009

Die Stimme des Klaviers

Peter Ablinger, an Austrian composer currently residing in Berlin, has done something rather interesting: he made a recording of a child reading the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court, then invented a mechanical piano player capable of reading notes in a very high time resolution from a computer.

The computer performs a frequency analysis of the sound spectrum, aided by Ablinger himself, which is then fed into the piano player and out comes the child’s voice.

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(Video in German with English subtitles)

While I wouldn’t have much hope for people trying to work out what the piano is “saying” without the aid of seeing the words as they’re heard, I think it’s a pretty interesting experiment. The auto-player in itself is something to be marvelled at. Neat!

7 October, 2009 at 18:20 by aengus

Posted in Art, Berlin, Computers, Experimental, German Language, Germany, Linguistics, News, Oddities | 2 Comments »

31 May 2009

Satire als Rhetorik

Bündnis 90/Die Grünen haben eine neue Werbung für die kommende Europawahl produziert, die wahrscheinlich ziemlich kontrovers wird. Schau mal:

Wie finden Sie das? Haben sie den Nagel auf den Kopf getroffen oder haben sie nur eine krasse, opportunistische Werbung gemacht?

31 May, 2009 at 1:25 by aengus

Posted in German Language, Germany, Politics | No Comments »

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