Radio Free Culture:
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from October 9, 2014
Hosted by various WFMU personalities, Radio Free Culture is a weekly program that explores digital culture, net neutrality, piracy, the broadcast spectrum, digital rights, and archives and libraries in the internet age. We'll be interviewing some of the nation's key figures at the intersection of music, multimedia, and digital technology. This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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October 9, 2014: Radio Free Culture #18: Player Piano: The First Digital Music Revolution (Part 2/2)
The player piano's influence on digital music, including MIDI, Super MIDI, Black MIDI, MIDI-powered automata and mechanical pop. Featuring interviews with Nick Seaver, Aaron David Ross, Michael Connor and Nick Yulman. Host/producer Jason Sigal.
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| Jason Sigal |
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Theme Song: Thick Business "Smoothest Runes" | ||||||||
| Oh Promise Me | QRS | optical scan of an 1889 piano roll performance, courtesy of trachtman.org | ||||||||
Nick SeaverCultural Anthropologist, nickseaver.net"This Is Not a Copy": Mechanical Fidelity and the Re-enacting Piano automatic violin |
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| Nick Seaver |
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Aaron David Rossaarondavidross.comMusician, sound designer, master of extended techniques with the Disklavier Score to the film Buffalo by Charles Anderson, music composed performed and recorded by ADR Frederic Chiu performance with Yamaha's Disklavier, Oct 30th at Miller Theatre NYC |
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| Aaron David Ross |
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Conlon Nancarrow |
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Michael ConnorCurator, rhizome.orgThe Impossible Music of Black MIDI Black MIDI documentary by Andrew Chugg Music heard in this segment: Goto80, "Spill", Digi-Dig |
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| Michael Connor |
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rhizome.org | ||||||||
Nick YulmanSound & interactive design artist, builder of musical automata, nysoundworks.orgThing Synth from Nick Yulman on Vimeo. Nick Yulman - Index Boogie at PS1 from Nick Yulman on Vimeo. Concert Hall at Palais de Tokyo - Walk Through from Nick Yulman on Vimeo. |
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| Nick Yulman |
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nysoundworks.org | ||||||||
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More resources (feel free to share links in the comments): The Guinness Collection of Instruments & Automata, Morristown NJ: |
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