ok, see, i know i've been posting a lot of links, but...

Nov 11, 2003

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http://post.iwant-news.com/counter/redirect.php?cid=706&c=13&url=http://www.free-site.cc/123/20030908_movie.wmv

this is hilarious. this is astounding. this is pathetic. this is the concept of ddr… but applied to piano. i cannot believe it. i cannot believe that someone came up with this idea in the first place, got a company to make the machine for it, got people to program songs into it. and i cannot believe that someone is a virtuouso at this thing. i am in awe. i am in shock. i am in shock and awe. is this something to applaud, a talent, an ability to wire the brain in any way imaginable? or is it something to deplore, evidence of the utter and total commercialization of everything, even… classical piano?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

only time will tell. time, the great arbiter, the monumental force pushing us through the centures, through the baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary eras, the drift and pull of the ages producing ever greater and lesser works of art. is this it, then? the culmination of the millennia? an arcade game?

Comments (10)

misterroboto November 10, 2003 at 7:07 PM

they have a game like this one at the bearcade! i can do decently on DDR at beginner level, but couldn't get anywhere past the easiest stuff on the piano-ish game.

see also: karaoke revolution!

judytuna November 11, 2003 at 2:42 AM

nuts! i'm going to the bearcade!

yeah, i saw the box for karaoke revolution when i visited at ebgames. it comes with a microphone and everything. the box said "over 36 songs!" and had really recent stuff, like michelle branch's "are you happy now."

berkeleyjew November 10, 2003 at 11:55 PM

That's it! That's all pianos need to get kids interested again; flashing lights and graphics.

Why don't they just give the poor kid a keyboard? His palms must be smarting!

judytuna November 11, 2003 at 2:45 AM

i wonder if he can play piano. i wonder if he knows/recognizes the mishmash of the pieces he's playing. and it's close to piano... but it's also not quite like piano (obvoiusly), because, well, yeah, you don't smack anything with your palms while playing a piano, unless you're ben folds and you rock, in which case you also use your elbows and your piano bench. hahaha

rwclark November 11, 2003 at 8:39 PM

Why is this entry wider than all the rest? It has single-handed caused by friends page to become extra-wide, requiring me to scroll from side to side to read the entries. Is this some kind of livejournal bug?

jennnnnnny November 14, 2003 at 11:03 AM

Did you two really post at 4am?!

berkeleyjew November 11, 2003 at 10:48 AM (in reply to comment 821)

I doubt it. He probably recognizes the pieces though. They're pretty well-known. It's sad that the device doesn't actually conform to a keyboard; he might be able to migrate his tremendous facility with those buttons to something he could do at home, for free.

Ben Folds used his bench?

splag November 11, 2003 at 8:12 PM (in reply to comment 821)

Now that I'm back in Windows, I finally got to look at this video. It's amazing! Video games have got to improve your dexterity.

rwclark November 15, 2003 at 11:19 AM (in reply to comment 825)

Probably. What do you do when you go home? I never used to go home except at holidays. You should come back and play with us.

jennnnnnny November 15, 2003 at 11:29 AM (in reply to comment 826)

I'm coming back today; I'm not sure when, but I'd love to play! There's some of those hard persimmons at my house so I'll bring some back for you, but I better see you so I can give them to you, since I'm rather unenthusiastic about them.