Conlon Nancarrow's Impossible Piano (Patreon)

Conlon Nancarrow's Impossible Piano

Conlon Nancarrow's work is unlike anything that came before it. He was a hacker before computers existed, using and abusing self-playing pianos in order to create music that would have been literally impossible for human beings to perform. He was fascinated with rhythms, writing pieces with lots of different tempos at once and even working irrational numbers like pi into his compositions. His explorations of what rhythms could be when freed from the limitations of a human performer are revolutionary to this day, and he managed to accomplish in the mid-20th century things that you'd think could only be done on a modern computer. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Merchandise Store: http://12tonevideos.storenvy.com/ Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/12tonevideos/ Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Last: Polyrhythms video: https://youtu.be/7XG3TASqZkI Harmonic Series video: https://youtu.be/Q8ITu0EASL4 Nancarrow's Study no. 37: https://youtu.be/LFz2lCEkjFk Adam Neely's video: https://youtu.be/e2reuQyLoZM Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cHX-sdROwL0gEFIOaa-4Yh_M6w6qo_848Dx-YZmTj5k/edit?usp=sharing Huge thanks to our gold-level Patreon supporters: Ron Jones Jill Jones Susan Jones Howard Levine Elaine Pratt Ken Arnold Nakarin: https://www.youtube.com/user/jerom09666 Mark Yachnin Gabi Ghita Kaylor Hodges Nicholas Kehonen Joe Mensor William (Bill) Boston Dialup Salesman Nicolas Mendoza Justin Donnell: https://www.youtube.com/user/jsterj1 And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Logan Jones, Eugene Bulkin, Abram Thiessen, Anna Work, Oliver, Jc Bq, Adam Neely, Jon I, nico, David Zahara, Harold Gonzales, Lucas van Loomis, Michael Fieseler, Rick Lees, Ben LaRose, Marc Himmelberger, Chris Borland,rhandhom1, jason black, Dutreuilh Olivier, Scott Lavoie, Olivia Andersson, Jason Mantei, Nick Olman, Daniel Carleton, Joey Strandquist, Daniel Gilchrist, billy roberts, Elliot Burke, Alex Atanasyan, Davis Sprague, Amlor, Miles Strand, PlayTheMind, Noah Quilantan, Greg Borenstein, Tim S., David Tocknell, and Elias Simon! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold and Inés Dawson for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!