Schlagwort: Robots

Ein normales analoges Klavier, das von einer computergesteuerten mechanischen Maschine gespielt wird, und es klingt, als würde jemand sprechen. Deus Cantando ist das Werk des Künstlers Peter Ablinger. Er nahm einen deutschen Schüler auf, der einen Text rezitierte, und komponierte dann eine Melodie für den mechanischen Spieler, die wie die Rezitation klang. Jason Nobles darüber:

This is not digital manipulation, nor a digitally programmed piano like a Disklavier. This is a normal, acoustic piano, any old piano. The mechanism performing it consists of 88 electronically controlled, mechanical “fingers,” synchronized with superhuman speed and accuracy to replicate the spectral content of a child’s voice. Watching the above-linked video, it may seem that the speech is completely intelligible, but this is partially an illusion. The visual prompt of the words on the screen are an essential cue: take them away, and it becomes much harder to understand the words. But it is still remarkable that the auditory system is able to group discrete notes from a piano into such a close approximation of a continuous human voice, and that Ablinger was able to do this so convincingly using a conventional instrument (albeit, played robotically).

(Direktlink, via Kottke)