A piano provoked by the demanding fingers of the maestro Maurizio Baglini and the will to dialogue with music are what make up ”A piano for the web”. It is a simple and ambitious idea is not limited to use the web and computer technologies for the diffusion and access to classical music but also attempts to experiment and offer new forms of usability in the feeling of digital art.
The idea is to create and host on the web multimedia works linked to classical music. The works, not necessarily linked/bound to the classical form of a videoclip, will benefit from the many options offered by technology. The features of the latter can mainly be artistic, entertaining, educational or of other nature.
We pictured this activity as complementary and not as alternative to traditional listening of music. It should be a different way to encounter the musical work which is not offered in its pure sound element but mixed and distorted in other forms of expression.
The idea was conceived after a concert of the maestro Maurizio Baglini in the far away town of San Miniato in July 2006. In an evening of pouring notes with stormy inserts, I (Giuseppe Andrea L’Abbate) had the pleasure to listen for the first time to the suite for piano Mussorgski "Pictures at an exhibition". This work describes in music the author’s visit to an art exhibition of his fellow and painter Hartman. I was touched by it, the interdisciplinary element and, especially, the explicit of navigational elements throughout the exhibition space were to me a pleasure yet a provocation.
In the work, the theme called “Le Promenade” evidences the passage from one hall/lounge/room to the other, while the other pieces develop pictorial themes of single canvases. I performed my first 3D navigation in music. There was an exhibition area, some paintings in music and some pathways…I had to try the opposite operation: from music to the arbitrary reconstruction of a navigational space inspired by it.
