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Sound Clip: Nonsense and Phonograph by Matthew Wilcock
A Piano with Electronics system programmed in Max/MSP for use with iCube X and eight sensors. The whole system is reconfigurable and is being adapted for current piano and electronics pieces.
I click the button, a note, then some tapping. Then, abrupt dissonant chords start and stop, and start and stop again, as if there is a monkey using Garage Band. The discordance is, well, discordant, but intriguing. I feel as if there are many different radio stations playing at one time, but only one is getting through per second. Then, the birds start flocking towards the radio, and they chirp and tap, and then there are deep sounds, like a dinosaur is roaring in slomo. Then the ringing starts, like a cheesy sound effect for some Japanese alien movie. After that, the strange bass/guitar goes, and then the tambourine rings, and adds more sound to the already loud piece. After that, a strange yet familiar piano piece plays in one ear, in intervals between the strange guitar. This happy music give way to a great noise reminiscent of a rocket launch gone bad, and it ends with the beating of a tom-tom like drum.
This is a really great piece of music.
It starts off with tune that makes you want to tap your feet. It sounds like an electric piano, then sudden clapping and snapping. The sound slowly fades away as random sounds of what seems to be urinating or waterfalls come in. The tune comes back in and out throughout the whole sound clip, and the dynamics change.