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
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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