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Transcoding Nancarrow at the Dawn of the Age of MIDI: The Preservation and Use of Conlon Nancarrow's Player Piano Studies.

This article focuses on the process by which, in 1987, sound artist and inventor Trimpin converted composer Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano from their original hand-punched rolls into the MIDI format. In addition to presenting the technology utilized in this conversion, the article focus...

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Published in:Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 32 - 36
Main Authors: MURPHY, JIM, TRIMPIN
Format: Article
Published: MIT Press Dec2017
Subjects:
MIDI (Standard)
Transcoding
Nancarrow, Conlon, 1912-1997
Piano music
Preservation of sound recordings
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