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This installation explores a connecting link where language and music intersect. The brain converts what are initially abstract musical structures into a series of words in a human language – in this case the 2009 Declaration of the International Environmental Criminal Court. Peter Ablinger, along with Winifred Ritsch and Thomas Musil, use software that reconstructs the spectrum of frequencies inherent in speech thru the computer-control of a piano’s gamut of repeating half-tones and variable velocities using eighty-eight “fingers” capable of up to 16 keystrokes per second. Four photos follow showing various angles and close-ups with a short video excerpt of mine followed by the complete video (better sound without extreme extraneous room ambience) provided by Peter Ablinger himself.
(thanks to Peter Ablinger)