Alfonso Peduto - Binary Data I Live [Disklavier + realtime delays]

A new performance of Binary Data I, for piano with realtime delays. Spotify link: Binary Data is a collection of works written specifically for a Yamaha Disklavier piano programmed with realtime delays: the music has been written to be performed in conjunction with the instrument actuating all the delays physically, in real-time. In this new series of performances everything has been captured on video to showcase the project in its full aim. Credits Music composed by Alfonso Peduto Performed by Alfonso Peduto Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Alfonso Peduto Video shot by Alfonso Peduto Video Editing and Coloring by Alfonso Peduto Piano Programmed by Alfonso Peduto Piano tuned by my good friend Jerry More Information about “Binary Data“ Binary Data is a collection of works written with a specific aim. The music for each piece is completely determined by the following two sets of ‘data’: (1) a piano part and (2) one or more chosen specified time-displacements - here on referred to as delays. The overall musical work is then the result of the notated music together with a superimposed copy (or copies) of the same material, time-delayed by the specified amount(s) - a sort of canonic writing. Moreover, and most crucially, the music has been written in way to be performed with a Yamaha Disklavier actuating real-time all of the delayed material - physically on the instrument. This has the covert implication that the works were written so that no (physical) overlaps between what the player has to perform and what is actuated on the instrument (the delayed music) will ever occur at any point. A note on the technology: a Disklavier allows both to receive in real-time what is being performed on it, and to play back whatever music is sent to it. The composer has thus developed a system that allows to have real-time physical delays. In terms of alternative performance possibilities, in the absence of a Disklavier and the software needed to actuate the delays, the works can be played with digital delays (via audio signal processing) or, even, with multiple pianos. The name of the collection has been chosen to reflect two things. On one side, that the music is completely determined by a two-part data set - a piano part and the specified delays. Moreover, the name is meant to convey that technology has played a central role in the development of the works. Binary Data as a whole can in fact be regarded as having been uniquely inspired by the technical possibilities allowed by a Yamaha Disklavier.