conlon nancarrow - complete studies for player piano
 

Ahh.. holy shit.. I'm listening to this 5 CD collection right now.. it's destroying my brain.. impossibly fast and impossibly complex piano shit that requires machines or more than one person in order to play them.. just amazing..

sounds dope.

Or a player piano - I've not been able to get hold of any Nancarrow on player-pianos, but I've heard them, and they're a great deal better to my mind than, say, Joanne McGregor's renditions. One of the interesting things about Nancarrow, and also my experience, is that the player-piano pieces are designed with the fallibility of the instrument and also the mechanised nature of player-pianos in mind, rather than the hyper-complexity more common to a Szymanovsky or somesuch.

exactly.

The truest integration of a Nancarrow influence in what is something of a "rock" band is the "Chariot Swing" EP by Silentist.

amazing stuff

that