Conlon Nancarrow's Impossible Piano
Conlon Nancarrow's work is unlike anything that came before it. He was a hacker before computers existed, using and abusing self-playing pianos in order to create music that would have been literally impossible for human beings to perform. He was fascinated with rhythms, writing pieces with lots of different tempos at once and even working irrational numbers like pi into his compositions. His explorations of what rhythms could be when freed from the limitations of a human performer are revolutionary to this day, and he managed to accomplish in the mid-20th century things that you'd think could only be done on a modern computer.
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