Over the weekend I attended the Alfred University Senior shows – a large showing of work from all graduating seniors and some elected underclassmen. There was one project that partictually caught my eye. Someone had taken an old piano and rigged it up to turn on a light for each key press. When I attended the showing, someone quite tanleted was playing the standard classical pieces. The lights that would be turned on were standard light-blub sized blubs, each in there own hand-blown glass casing (Alfred specializes in glass and ceramics) creating a really effect. The encased lights were hung from the cieling and encircled the entire front of the stage the piano was resting on.
For my project I would like to attempt sometime similar, on a much small scale. Having lights hang from some sort of fixture – maybe a bar or a rod - defused by either a sheet of sheath of sorts or encased in ping-pong balls. The lights would be in order of the keys, the black keys hanging above the white keys.