An Infinitely Sustaining Piano Achieved Through a Soundboard-Mounted Shaker

William Thompson, and Edgar Berdahl

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper outlines a demonstration of an acoustic piano augmentation that allows for infinite sustain of one or many notes. The result is a natural sounding piano sustain that lasts for an unnatural period of time. Using a tactile shaker, a contact microphone and an amplitude activated FFT-freeze Max patch, this system is easily assembled and creates an infinitely sustaining piano.

Citation

William Thompson, and Edgar Berdahl. 2021. An Infinitely Sustaining Piano Achieved Through a Soundboard-Mounted Shaker . Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.2c4879f5 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{NIME21_44,
 abstract = {This paper outlines a demonstration of an acoustic piano augmentation that allows for infinite sustain of one or many notes. The result is a natural sounding piano sustain that lasts for an unnatural period of time. Using a tactile shaker, a contact microphone and an amplitude activated FFT-freeze Max patch, this system is easily assembled and creates an infinitely sustaining piano.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {44},
 author = {Thompson, William and Berdahl, Edgar},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.2c4879f5},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/YRby0VdL8Nk},
 title = {An Infinitely Sustaining Piano Achieved Through a Soundboard-Mounted Shaker  },
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/cde9r70r},
 year = {2021}
}