Given the resounding 'success' of my Po, Li, & Ou texts, it was 'inevitable' that I make movie versions of them. & what better way to do so than by having them typed using Mark Dixon & Fred Snider's SELECTRIC PIANO? The Selectric typewriter was the creme de là creme of typewriters in the 1970s b/c it used interchangeable font balls instead of just having one fixed font. I even rented one in 1977 to type my 1st bk in preparation for its publishing. Of course, in this day & age of almost immediate pre-planned obsolescence, the Selectric is now 'out-moded' in contrast to computers & whatnot. However, many fogeys, young & old, find such obsolescence wasteful & continue to use such objects & devices. Enter Mark Dixon, repurposer extraordinaire. Mark had the brilliant idea of making each of the Selectric's 88 key positions correspond to & control each of the 88 keys on a piano - here, an electric piano - & Fred Snider added his technical expertise to make it possible. SO, typing the highly formally restrictive "Ou" text & some of its explanatory material produces a unique aural correlative. Such assignments of notes to letters has, of course, precedents - such as in Jackson MacLow's 1974 "A VOCABULARY FOR PETER INNISFREE MOORE". Remote-controlling of pianos (& other instruments) also has a long & interesting history - such as in the player piano work of Conlon Nancarrow, the work of Richard Tietelbaum, Alec Bernstein, Dan Carney, & many others. HOWEVER, I think that Mark's ...
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