Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia commissioned the Silence Organ for Innovative Instruments, a show of artists’ instruments presented in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Citycircus, a celebration of John Cage.
To exploit rooms full of interesting instruments making interesting noises, I wired the gallery with 13 microphones, each set in a resonating tube tuned to a note of the diatonic scale. The viewer would put on headphones and play a tune on an antique keyboard, in which each note was made of filtered sound from elsewhere in the gallery.
This is such a simple but brilliant idea! Wish I could have experienced it. Must have taken a bit of effort to setup and get sounding even… (compressors / limiters?) So digging it.
Ive been looking at the work on this website and think its brilliant. im interested in pianos and old sheet music, especailly those pianos that could play automatically. I agree with the comment above, I wouldve liked to of expericned this for myself. great work.