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12-18-08, 06:42 PM
George Anthiel's Ballet Mechanique was a 1924 Dada provocation, to accompany the film of the same name by Ferdinand Leger. The original orchestration called for 16 player pianos (or pianolas) in four parts, 2 regular pianos, 3 xylophones, at least 7 electric bells, 3 propellers, siren, 4 bass drums, and 1 tam-tam. As it turned out, there was no way to keep so many pianolas synchronized, so early performances combined the four parts into a single set of pianola rolls and augmented the two human-played pianos with 6 or more additional instruments.
Enter modern technology to the rescue! The score was revived in 2006 at the National Gallery, and performed by robots...no problemo. This is really priceless---food for your mechanical soul, and lots of fun, to boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0H8ztju78
Enter modern technology to the rescue! The score was revived in 2006 at the National Gallery, and performed by robots...no problemo. This is really priceless---food for your mechanical soul, and lots of fun, to boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0H8ztju78