- I haven't heard microtonal music on piano since my 1990
   Electronic music theory class at Hampshire College so it's been
   25 yeas for my ears smile emoticon I was judging the piano
   itself and the nature of hearing 1/4 tones in a novel context
   rather than the musical piece, as the video was about the piano
   for me and not about a 20 second portion of a longer song. Ok,
   this will cause 99.999998% of you to go screaming in terror
   but... it makes beautiful beats and harmonics - although its
   hard to hear at first. Just create some extra slots inbetween
   the tones in your mind and listen to the dissonance playing with
   itself. But... THEN they had to add the violins. I'd omit the
   violins completely. They were smearing it.
   I expect a LOT of disagreement on this. I'd love to play it, so
   long as I had a rotten tomato shield around me. === [two notes
   disagreeing with my hacking of the piece] === I'm part of a
   group for people with Perfect Pitch: I have perfect pitch - both
   kinds - and in the comments I saw 20 different people cringing
   in their comments. A lifetime ago (22 years), my friend took me
   to various places to play pianos. I wrote about it in 1994 in a
   writing exercise that was mainly focused on my amazement at the
   potential for human interconnectivity on the Internet. :Meet a
   younger me: ===Ken's Skills, Mar 23, 1994=== These years of
   being jacked into the telephone lines, talking with people from
   around the world, has made me a better thinker, and a better
   writer. I am at a point now, with my writing, that I have
   successfully transmitted my feelings and empathy to people whom
   I will never meet. I have gotten compliments on my writing,
   which isn't a common occurrence on the Internet. Years of
   practice communicating on similar forums have given me the
   ability to motivate people as well. For example, for a period of
   a month and a half, I went to various piano stores around the
   New Jersey area to try out the many different makes of grand
   pianos out there. Every time I came back from a trip, I posted a
   message to a forum where people interested in pianos and piano
   playing participate, describing my feelings on the pianos that I
   played, and include contact information if interested in trying
   them out themselves. One of my trips was to try out a new,
   almost legendary piano, the Fandrich piano. The Fandrich piano
   is a small upright piano that has been designed to sound and
   feel like a grand piano. Many people in that group were quite
   interested in my findings. Because of my review of the Fandrich
   piano, a man in Texas contacted the Fandrich people, and is
   buying a Fandrich piano! He is spending $11,000 because of my
   advice, and he hasn't even played the piano for himself yet.
   Needless to say, Barb Fandrich, the wife of the designer, was
   very pleased and called me from Washington State to thank me for
   my positive review (which the gentleman from Texas faxed to
   her). Ken's Skills, Mar 23, 1994. Part of the exercises.
   ======== So, that's why I would hack at the piece in this case:
   I wanted to review the piano as well as the subjective cognitive
   switch from hearing a piano in its typical
   tempered-but-always-not-quite-perfect pitch, into a 1/4 tone
   split. I enjoy dissonant music as well as microtones, particular
   in indian music with the Sitar. So, that's why I would want to
   leave the violins out. They smeared the tones and made it
   difficult to distinguish the violin from piano for a few
   seconds. Before then, I was hearing the overtones ringing which
   the violins cut short. == In another vein, I can also hack at
   music pieces I listen to: "How I would've done it differently"
   if it was my piece. I can also appreciate the intent of the
   composer, the abilities of the performers, the technical quality
   of the instruments, and the experience of the piece itself in a
   few ways. Honestly, what I want is to get my hands on this piano
   and make some music with it. I can imagine many possibilities
   with it, including a piece with swirling dissonance, as well as
   one with an awkward purity.