On 4/14/05, n3wjack <n3wjack@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 4 lines VS just doesn't seem like the violin playing guy, but then again,
> VS just doesn't seem like the violin playing guy, but then again,
> Aphex knows how to play the piano as well doesn't he, so why not a
> violin...
>
Actually, RDJ can't play piano, or read music.
From
http://www.warprecords.com/artists/news.php?filter=afx&ti_id=516
Nearly sixty years later Richard James was in a BBC studio taking part
in a Radio 3 programme called 'Mixing It'. His music was being played
along with the usual fabulous eclectic mix that this programme offers
every Sunday night. One of Cage's prepared piano pieces was played and
Mr Aphex's ears were drawn to the extraordinary sounds. He enquired
about the prepared piano and how it was all done. Many other techno
artists would have probably prepared a piano and sampled some of the
sounds, but not Richard James, he knew this simply wouldn't work and
that any results of this process would be crass. He bought a grand
piano that can be played by computer. It's called a 'Diskclavier' and
it's made by Yamaha. It's exactly like a straightforward grand piano
but the keys can be controlled by a computer via MIDI – the musical
instrument digital interface. Richard James cannot read conventional
musical notation and he cannot play a keyboard so, in order to make
the piano and prepared piano pieces that appear on 'Drukqs' he
prepared his Diskclavier according to the principles established by
John Cage and programmed the playing using a computer. The results are
there for all to hear. It's a real piano on Drukqs, not a sampler or a
synthesizer. Richard James has brought the sound of the forties into
the 21st century.