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Cory Arcangel produced a video of Schoenberg's Drei Klavierstücke op. 11 performed by cats:
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/dreiklavierstucke/
This is one of a series of videos in which Arcangel edits single musical notes out of other videos (in this case, from a website featuring cats on piano keyboards) to produce a faultless (or accurate, anyway) rendition of a work. I believe his latest features Paganini performed by YouTube guitarists.
The Schoenberg video had the advantage of being a commentary on all those non-admirers who say that Schoenberg sounds like a bunch of cats walking around on keyboards. The composition dates from 1909, however, so is prior to S's development of the twelve-tone row.
I haven't listened to this so I don't know whether the cats have a consistency of tone and touch.
Arcangel remarks in an article in a recent issue of Art Review that he can deliver lectures that make his work sound profoundly theoretical, or he can deliver lectures that make it sound like just a bunch of jokes.
http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/dreiklavierstucke/
This is one of a series of videos in which Arcangel edits single musical notes out of other videos (in this case, from a website featuring cats on piano keyboards) to produce a faultless (or accurate, anyway) rendition of a work. I believe his latest features Paganini performed by YouTube guitarists.
The Schoenberg video had the advantage of being a commentary on all those non-admirers who say that Schoenberg sounds like a bunch of cats walking around on keyboards. The composition dates from 1909, however, so is prior to S's development of the twelve-tone row.
I haven't listened to this so I don't know whether the cats have a consistency of tone and touch.
Arcangel remarks in an article in a recent issue of Art Review that he can deliver lectures that make his work sound profoundly theoretical, or he can deliver lectures that make it sound like just a bunch of jokes.
