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    One Key, Many Notes: Ólafur Arnalds' Piano Rig Fuses Technology And Musicality

    The piano composer and his code-savvy friend created software and a piano rig that plays spontaneous notes from one key stroke.
    by Mary Louise Kelly Jul 19, 2018 1 minute
    "The idea behind this is not to create a computer that makes music for me, it's to create an instrument that I'm playing," Ólafur Arnalds says.

    Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds was in a hotel lobby somewhere in Asia when he first saw a modern version of a player piano. This particular one was tapping out The Beatles' "Yesterday."

    He remembers seeing the machine

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