A soothing sound toy with which to bathe the aural senses, Pianolina is a beautifully designed and gorgeously sounding Flash application created to introduce you to the sounds of the Grotrian piano.
Thoughtfully submitted by JIG visitor, Angst: "You never really think about music being based on physics, but this game shows us how music would sound when subjected to gravity. It's a simple web toy, but you can't help but play just to see how the various settings and notes interact. It's the joy of experimenting with sound in a unique, physics-based music machine. Now if only you could save your masterpieces..."
Elegant. Play with Grotrian Pianos' Pianolina.
Cheers Angst!
(Pianolina appeared in a previous Link Dump in case you're getting that deja vu feeling again.)
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I love the simplicity of the game. Especially the composition
Posted by: Gibbs | July 3, 2007 11:34 AM
I really like the E. Satie composition.
Posted by: crazytown | July 3, 2007 3:49 PM
Why not institute a tag for 'appeared in a previous Link Dump'?
Posted by: foo | July 3, 2007 7:01 PM
agreed, the e. satie composition is nice.
more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie
Posted by: z | July 3, 2007 7:57 PM
I actually played this a few months ago... weirdly enough, today I was thinking of the Satie composition and the pianolina thing, and I look at jayisgames and there it is.
Posted by: Con | July 3, 2007 9:13 PM
that E. Satie's comp. sounds like that theme from a game series on Newgrounds with this court hearing and you decide what to say. About this game, I can't seem to make my own music no matter what random tones I throw in.
Posted by: kenshiro | July 4, 2007 5:03 PM
Anyone know the name of the Satie piece?
Posted by: cupstar
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July 4, 2007 10:55 PM
I'm almost positive that the Satie piece is one of the Three Gnossiennes compositions (it's a bit confusing - he made 3 or 4 songs in the Gnossiennes series).
Thanks for the Pianolina link, Jay (and to Angst for the recommendation)! Unfortunately, I'm not very musical and couldn't really make anything that sounded good. It was fun though! :D
Posted by: Megan | July 4, 2007 11:50 PM
Yeah, the Satie comp. is featured in ZapDramatic's ambition series.
Posted by: Jace | July 5, 2007 5:21 PM
Thanks Megan, it's number one - I found a MP3 here
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/satie_erik/guitare/Satie-Eric_Guitare_01_Four_Gnossiennes_1-Lent.mp3
it's played on guitar, I wonder if there's a piano version out there too - it'd be more haunting to my ear.
Posted by: cupstar
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July 5, 2007 5:55 PM
Haha, I thought that screenshot looked familiar. Glad you guys liked it!
I've uploaded a piano version of the Satie piece "Gnossiennes N.1" to sendspace. It's a track from the Essential Classics Piano Works CD for the curious.
Posted by: Angst | July 6, 2007 6:38 AM
Thanks for that, here's another version - it's a bit slower and with more reverb.
Posted by: cupstar
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July 6, 2007 10:56 PM
reminds me of an interactive version of the siggraph piece "pipe dreams"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfoQzBgfLf8
Posted by: wistan
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July 9, 2007 6:47 PM
Interesting. I too like the Satie selection.
Posted by: Daniel | July 10, 2007 2:41 PM
Satie is one of my favorite composers. He was one of the fore-fathers of minimal and ambient music. I love this sound-toy... coming up with all kinds of neat stuff. Thanks!
Posted by: ant_factor | July 21, 2007 4:36 AM
what is the password
Posted by: tommy | August 18, 2007 1:07 PM
This is so AWESOME!!!!!
Posted by: super_toria | October 7, 2007 1:36 PM