88 Pianists

[MrGongGong]

A couple of folks I know are making pieces for this

http://www.88pianists.com

It's attempting to have 88 people playing a piano (88 not 127 keys) at the same time

Live "Black MIDI" anyone ?

[ardcarp]

Blimey. Even this is fairly cramped....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo7MikGlb8w

(I seem to remember Mozart having written a simple piece for 6 hands...he sitting in the middle between two fair ladies...the order of hands being female-male-female-female-male-female.)

[cloughie]

A couple of folks I know are making pieces for this

http://www.88pianists.com

It's attempting to have 88 people playing a piano (88 not 127 keys) at the same time

Live "Black MIDI" anyone ?

Why?

[gradus]

There was an item on The news Quiz last week about the crisis caused by the number of illegal immigrants crossing the channel by inflatable boat. By way of a sense of proportion the speaker (can't remember who) pointed out that the total number of illegals constituting the crisis was one less than the Guinness World Record for clowns fitting into a car.
Guinness world records, a possible context for this thread.

[MrGongGong]

Why?

It's a design & engineering project
and composing music is what composers do

[cloughie]

It's a design & engineering project
and composing music is what composers do

Yes OK but having 88 people playing 1 piano - I fail to see why they would want to do it! Could even match Cage’s idea of playing sod all for just over four and a half minutes!

[ardcarp]

Physically impossible for 88 kids to play on one keyboard at the same time but I dare say if you organised a relay where teams did a continuous pincer-movement playing pre-ordained patterns of notes as they passed, it could be fun.

Alternatively one could think outside the box. Have 10 at the keyboard, 70 round the edge (Model D, lid off) plucking strings with their fingers and maybe singing notes loudly to get resonances...and the other 8 underneath the piano tapping the soundboard as the percussion section.

Do I get the job?

[Stanfordian]

Yes OK but having 88 people playing 1 piano - I fail to see why they would want to do it! Could even match Cage’s idea of playing sod all for just over four and a half minutes!

Clearly have nothing better to do! Guinness World Records maybe? Unless it is for charity.

No doubt Argerich and Barenboim are too busy for the première

[Lat-Literal]

Forum members may wish to compare and contrast with Kristoffer Zegers's "Pianophasing" which was one of my choices on the above mentioned thread.

There the point is not about how many people are playing one piano but how many pianos are being played at one time by people which can conceivably be more than 88.

https://pianophasing.com/

[vinteuil]

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... assuming it's one finger per note, and assuming the performers may have ten fingers (thumbs counting as fingers here), then I think it wd be more sensible to reckon on nine performers (providing at least 88 fingers); for this it wd be best to have three pianos.

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