Disklavier

Hello Everyone,

This past winter, I have been involved with the new Current Science & 
Technology Center of the Museum of Science in Boston. The Center's first 
exhibit, titled Playing with Music, has been on display since early February 
and will be taken down this coming week.

As part of our effort to bring a level of interactivity to the exhibit, we 
had 3 "web page days" in which we recorded students on a Disklavier grand 
piano which was situated in the museum's lobby. After they recorded, the 
students' digital picture and MIDI file were uploaded to the museum's web 
site. By the time the kids walked down the corridor to the exhibit itself, 
they had become part of the exhibit and could find themselves on a kiosk 
attached to a concept piano called the Disklavier Pro 2000. The Pro 2000 
would then play back their performances. Of course, all of this was 
accessible from home as well.

The web pages are still in place on the museum's web site and may remain 
there for a few more weeks.

In all, 88 kids recorded on the Disklavier on one of the 3 Saturdays in which 
we featured the web page project. We posted a total of 95 recordings on the 
web site.

Anyone can get information about the exhibit at:
www.mos.org/exhibits/digitalmusic/

There is a link on that page to the performances page, whose address is:
http://www.mos.org/whats_happening/new_exhibits.html#music

Of course, there is a great deal of quality variance in these performances. 
Some of the most interesting include:

Peter D'elia - Black Key Etude-Chopin
Mark Galinovsky - Nocturne
Bethany Pietroniro - Sonata Opus 31 Number 1- Beethoven
Daniel Rodriguez - Opus da funk - Horace Silver
Jim Rome - Rachmaninoff Moment Musical in E minor
Qian qian Tang - Prelude and Fugue - Bach
Qian qian Tang - Serenade Rachmaninoff

Regards,
PianoBench