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Piano playing transformed into Playstation controllers that play StreetFighter

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Re: Piano playing transformed into Playstation controllers that play StreetFighter

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It would have been even better if they had been able to rig it so that the commands to operate the game roughly followed the rules of classical harmony, that way, the gameplay would be more obviously musical. As it is, it sounds a bit atonal.

Re: Piano playing transformed into Playstation controllers that play StreetFighter

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The title, and even their own abstract, does not do this project justice. They did not simply map piano keys to a controller's buttons. About a quarter through the post: A simple solution would be to link every piano key to a controler button. This could be fairly easy to build, but seemed that it would lean way too much towards non-music, providing too much of a simple translation, instead of a metaphor. We wanted a…

Reminds me of some of the work of Xenakis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_piece_(music)

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