On 4/14/05, Alan Lucas <alucas@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 30 lines On 4/14/05, n3wjack <n3wjack@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/14/05, n3wjack <n3wjack@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
odd, I was pretty sure RDJ had a classical piano background, but maybe
that was someone else, and the piano parts in Drukqs just tricked by
brain into creating a faulty neural path and make be believe so..
I'll have to check out those piano parts again sometime though, they
sound really good for someone who can't read notes, or knows how to
play the piano,
there may be hope for me after all!! :)
that piano part in Epsilons No Try makes me jealous for not knowing
how to write a piece like that for instance, it makes my spine tingle
every time I hear it
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