I composed a series of software each analyzing a particular aspect of my inaccuracies, my mistakes (I am not a very good pianist) and “conjugating” them with the computer’s mistakes or inaccuracies (for example, the difficulty a computer has in being precise in time while regularly updating the image on the screen), and also with the weakness of the Disklavier, which is a fabulously hybrid instrument.

The Disklavier is a real grand piano, not an imitation, a concert Yamaha on which an electro-mechanical system is added to control the hammers. When computers are used to try to control it, requiring it to do things for which it was not designed – either in terms of speed, agility, of playing the same note several times at the same time, this piano then generates its own sounds, hesitations, tremors.

When these three deviation layers are added, we have le piano flou. This is the result of the digital manipulations of certain parameters, that are then interpreted on the Disklavier piano.

– Jocelyn Robert

Le Piano Flou #1

1. Le pont

2. La chute

3. Le tisserand

4. La maison flottante

Le Piano Flou #2

5. Fatigue élargissant

6. Buffalos

7. Stretched notes

8. Le tisserand #2

9. Fatigue #2

10. Gammes

11. La leçon

12. Flesh echo

13. Arpeggios

14. Portrait #1

15. Fatigue #1