{"id":5647,"date":"2016-09-08T09:43:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2016-09-08T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T13:43:19","slug":"silent-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2016\/09\/08\/silent-hands.html","title":{"rendered":"Silent Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA half hour spent thinking I was recording video\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>audio should not go completely to waste. It&#8217;s actually kind of strange watching hands dart across the keys\u00a0absent the sound\u00a0or vibrations one might naturally expect. I&#8217;ve played piano most of my life\u00a0but\u00a0seeing another pianist&#8217;s hands play is still a marvelous mystery to me. It just doesn&#8217;t seem possible.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8uOF6CkP7A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have\u00a0difficulty juggling the very different mechanics of computers and the piano. True, my piano is digital, but little of its technology gets in my way. The same can be said of the 27&#8243; tablet I use as a sheet music reader. Digital sheet music readers have\u00a0advantages and disadvantages over printed scores, but for me the compromise has been mostly frictionless.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the environment in which I learned to play but I&#8217;ve had no trouble incorporating the new interfaces into my pianistic\u00a0activities.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I never will get used to is the idea of turning the piano on. Having grown up almost entirely with acoustic instruments it just seems strange to me that the piano is not always on, or always ready.<\/p>\n<p>The mental dynamics of wrestling with recalcitrant software or computer hardware require strikingly different attitudes. It&#8217;s hard to pinpoint but suffice it to say that when I am at the piano I am far more in control of things compared to when I am trying to get software to do what I expect of it. Sometimes this boils over, and I find myself\u00a0at the piano but\u00a0feeling\u00a0repelled from the instrument by crappy or confusing software. 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