"The musical hit of the World Venice Forum 2009, a conference on environmental issues and international law, was Peter Ablinger’s DEUS CANTANDO, a piece for computer-controlled piano. The above video is from a German news report; you can hear the entire work on the Wien Modern Facebook page. The text is the Declaration of the International Environmental Criminal Court, by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and the Dalai Lama. What you hear is merely the illusion of a speaking voice; all sounds are produced by the piano. Ablinger, a leading Austrian experimentalist, explains his “phonorealist” technique on his Web site."
