Human and machine: What the player piano has to teach us about the future of consulting
The Source
JANUARY 16, 2019
My husband likes the music of Conlan Nancarrow , who was one of the first composers to write music for machines rather than people. His work for the player piano, a piano with no pianist, where the music is “played” by feeding in a roll of punchcard data, is extraordinary. Extraordinary because the machine can do things that a pianist can’t: It has more than 10 digits, and its “hands” can stretch to wider chords and play impossibly fast.
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