Benjamin Heidersberger

Pentatonic Permutations Player

Sound art

Exhibited at “Automat und Mensch” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2019

Description:

Welcome to a new and amazing sound experience. Listen. Relax. Calm down. At home, in the office or in a Yoga class. An acustic home on the go. Connect with frie nds. Pentatonic Permutations is an algorithmic piano composition that started 1 3,799 billion years ago and will continue another 16 trillion years, tagging every moment of time. After the last permutation the piece will stop. Pentatonic scales of prime n umber length are constantly phas e shifting, creating narrations. F ragments of melodies appear and disappear using the Indian/Japanese scale 1 - 4 - 2 - 3 - 2 . All players are playing the same part of the composition. The first limited and signed edition of 100 pi eces of the Pentatonic Permutations Player is b ased on a Raspberry Pi , a DCF77 time signal receiver, a highly efficient stereo class - D audio amplifier , two broadband speakers and natural samples of a Steinway Model - B piano , converting time to music . The player is independent of internet or wifi