Simon Bahr

Single Finger Mode is a piece for a pianist and a computer playing together on one piano. The piece is composed algorithmically, which allows the computer to rate the accuracy of the live-performance compared to the score. With each note it computes a highscore and uses it to generate an accompaniment to the notes played by the performer. The more accurate the computer considers the performance, the more it will be tamed and adjust to the music played. The less accurate the computer considers the performance, the more will it come to live on its own: It likes tonal chords and consonances very much and is always in for a little fun.

Recorded live on 06.07.2021 at Pina Bausch Theater, Essen. Performed by Ying Yu (piano).

The stage setup of …And Sugar consists of a screen with a black and white video projection and a piano, resembling early day silent movies. However, in certain respects it is transferred to the present: the automated piano plays itself and the black and white surface of the video is digitally reinterpreted by means of a binary rasterisation and transformation.

Recorded at Neue Aula, Folkwang Uni, Essen, on 06.07.2021.

Scrollbar is a short solo-piece written for Javad Javadzade as part one of his project lockdown miniatures. It was written and recoreded in very little time and premiered on Javads facebook wall. Somehow corona lockdown raises an old question in a new way: What if you kept scrolling but never reached the ground?!

home-recording by Javad Javadzade

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