DESCRIPTION:
Pachinko is a composition for a toy piano and computer, performed by a single player. It refers to a pinball game widely played in Japan where small metal balls cascade down through a dense forest of pins, creating an avalanche of noise. Due to the nature of such gambling devices, chance plays an important role. However, in this very piece, one can never lose but only win. And this applies to the audience as well. Pachinko is written for a small Michelsonne one-octave toy piano with only 13 keys. It is accompanied by a laptop computer (MacBook Pro) which runs a special software written in MaxMSP.

http://www.essl.at/works/pachinko.html

Performed by Isabel Ettenauer at Studio kHz on 30 Jan 2014