This year’s festival will feature instrument-builder/sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar with his robo-toy piano. We are excited to have a robot performer as part of the festivities!
In Ranjit’s own words, “I bought a toy player piano on ebay. It arrived all smashed to bits. I rescued the hammers and chimes and added mechanical actuators to bring it back to life!”
Here, you can read about the 19-hour Satie Vexation marathon the robo-toy piano endured.
…Or watch a short clip of the robo-toy piano playing a small part of Phliip Glass’s Modern Love Waltz originally written for Margaret Leng Tan.
