ppff – acronym for the musical notation “pianissimo – fortissimo”, is a generative visual music installation premiered at Barcelona’s “Gran Teatre del Liceu”.
Its main element is a player piano, a MIDI automated grand piano which can strike its hammers after receiving real-time music data.
This piano receives its musical information from an unorthodox source: an ever-changing rainfall of generative graphics, displayed on a vertical LED screen. When the graphics reach the piano position, they are transformed into MIDI notes thanks to a combination of custom softwares written in C++ (OpenFrameworks) and Java (Processing).
