{"id":2513,"date":"2012-10-08T04:07:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T08:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2012-10-07T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T17:41:00","slug":"hand-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2012\/10\/hand-played.html","title":{"rendered":"Hand-played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Player1909AJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2519\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 9px 17px;\" title=\"Player1909AJ\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Player1909AJ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Player1909AJ.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Player1909AJ-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>In the parlance of mechanical player-pianos, &#8220;hand-played&#8221; described a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piano_roll\" target=\"_blank\">piano roll<\/a> that was directly derived from a realtime human performance. After the initial punching of a roll, it could be retouched. Alternatively, a roll could be prepared entirely by a technician punching holes in a paper roll, measuring physical distances on paper to make the rhythm &#8212; no piano playing required. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BXFiq19-KSE\" target=\"_blank\">Conlon Nancarrow carried that practice to considerable extremes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s electronic music, especially in dance music, repeating patterns or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loop_(music)\" target=\"_blank\">loop<\/a>s made on a computer may be extremely regular and regularly repetitive, down to the level of milliseconds or frames. My once-upon-a-time student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.francescotristano.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Francesco Tristano<\/a> has described his preference in shows for playing some looped material live on the piano. It&#8217;s hand-played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the parlance of mechanical player-pianos, &#8220;hand-played&#8221; described a piano roll that was directly derived from a realtime human performance. After the initial punching of a roll, it could be retouched. Alternatively, a roll could be prepared entirely by a technician punching holes in a paper roll, measuring physical distances on paper to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1005,518,1004,1003,1000,1006,1002,999,1001,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-2513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-conlon","9":"tag-francesco","10":"tag-francesco-trsitano","11":"tag-hand-played","12":"tag-mechanical-instruments","13":"tag-nancarrow","14":"tag-piano-roll","15":"tag-player-piano","16":"tag-reproducing-piano","17":"tag-tristano","18":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}