![]() And listen here to one of Ablinger's previous projects, Voices and Piano, transcribing the words of some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers, composers, and dictators into musical notation, and played with blistering virtuosity by Nicolas Hodges. You have to see it to believe it, and while you're at it, find out about the technology the Austrian composer uses literally to make a piano speak. Thanks to Alex and Unquiet Thoughts for bringing my attention to Peter Ablinger's Speaking Piano, a player-piano that talks. ![]() His first book, the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. ![]() But have no fear – Alex has moved on to another patch of cyberspace at the New Yorker, his day-job, where Unquiet Thoughts (the title comes from a John Dowland part-song) is pretty well business as usual, "notes about music" that continues The Rest is Noise's mix of comment, resources, and internet-insight. Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. Alex Ross's talismanic blog, the site that helped inspire a thousand more classical music blogs (a conservative estimate) has reached the end of the road. The Rest is Noise is no more – long live Unquiet Thoughts. ![]()
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