The Piano Mill: Nostalgic Music and Architecture in the Australian Bush.
The Piano Mill is a tower in the forest of New South Wales designed and purpose-built to house 16 reclaimed pianos. Architect Bruce Wolfe conceived it as a massive sound sculpture incorporating a steampunk look and nineteenth-century acoustical devices. To launch The Mill the author composed a new w...
| Publicado en: | Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 53 - 55 |
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MIT Press
Dec2017
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| Sumario: | The Piano Mill is a tower in the forest of New South Wales designed and purpose-built to house 16 reclaimed pianos. Architect Bruce Wolfe conceived it as a massive sound sculpture incorporating a steampunk look and nineteenth-century acoustical devices. To launch The Mill the author composed a new work, All's grist that comes to the mill, that responds to the architecture, the natural environment and Australian colonial heritage. |
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