Japanese musician improvises jazz piece on burning piano

cornbb

Just spotted this on BBC news and thought it was worth posting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7300000/newsid_7301400?redirect=7301468.stm&news=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&asb=1

If for any reason the link doesn't work its currently on the front page here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

(I know nothing about the background/idea behind the piece, I'm lazy tonight )

Scubadevils

I wonder what the point of that was?! He seemed pretty pleased with himself after too

John

Bah, stupid new computer won't install plugins into Firefox correctly. Keeps telling me I don't have wmp installed and won't let me watch!

Scubadevils

Felixdhc wrote: »

I wonder what the point of that was?! He seemed pretty pleased with himself after too

Having read the other thread re 'prepared piano', I think I now get the point here

cornbb

Felixdhc wrote: »

Having read the other thread re 'prepared piano', I think I now get the point here

Hehe I'm still not sure if I get the point. Some things are just a liiiittle too far out for me. E.g. the David Tudor piece which calls for a bale of hay to be provided for the piano to eat....

Shanannigan

i don't get why he'd risk death by smoke inhalation to perform a piece of music... i mean i know music means a lot to people but there's a line