Dan Deacon - Bromst - In The Studio

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it in threads on black MIDI and player pianos as a look at an artist writing tuneful music beyond human playability.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Pitchfork

Topic

experimental music production

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2019

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From the original HN conversations

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• I would suggest Dan Deacon for someone who writes "unplayable" yet very tuneful pieces: eg. [VIDEO]

• A normally electronic musician, Dan Deacon, has used some very complex player piano arrangements. When he recorded his album Bromst, they set up multiple MIDI player pianos to play the midi arrangements. What I found very interesting is that the density of the notes actually …

• +1 for Olafur Another artist who has used a specially-crafted MIDI-controlled piano is Dan Deacon. His stuff is not exactly New Classical, though, it's a bit more frenetic and goofy, but quite good. He talks about it quite in a bit in a Pitchfork TV …