In this concert too, they gave a remarkable performance which included a wide inventory of extended instrumental techniques, which included the fragile percussive sound of the partiallyprepared piano or so-called string piano, i.e.

Now exploring community instead as aprepared piano of cross-purposes and obstacles, Kato has begun using video for more than just documentation, offering a richer experience for the gallery visitor.

Germany's Magda Mayas accompanied "Voyage a travers l'impossible" forprepared piano and keyboards.

Lana Bode accompanied on aprepared piano, koto-sounding,and was an interrupting voice - Death, perhaps?

Theprepared piano produces a tinny, toy-like color that adds a sense of childish simplicity to the already melodically simple and accompanimentally sparse songs.

Mostly performing as a trio, the group have used multiple prepared electric guitars struck with percussion mallets in an exciting sonic experiment, reminiscent of John Cage's work withprepared piano.

Gasparatos will perform as part of his Expanded Piano project, which will transform the Rialto theatre into a giant piano as the pianist plays hisprepared piano piece.

Most of his output seems to fall under the rubric of twelve-tone music, but references to performance art, popular music, minimalism,prepared piano, jazz, swing, and boogie-woogie also appear in Hennenberg's descriptions (pp.

11 EasilyPrepared Piano Arrangements, arranged by Carol Tornquist.

Pianos are the only instruments used in this musical, and in addition to the traditional and toy varieties, there are two "prepared pianos." Theprepared piano, developed by John Cage, is a piano whose strings have been kitted out with all manner of detritus which have foreign objects inserted into their strings, including screws, playing cards, and, as Merritt demonstrated for Village Voice interviewer Alexis Soloski, a gold-metal vibrator that they picked up at the sex shop next door to the theater.

He combines his classical training with a highly experimental approach, focusing his efforts on theprepared piano - placing objects (including leather, tin foil, and corks) on or in between the strings of the instrument.