Dan Tepfer (USA): Natural Machines

In an age of unprecedented technological advancement, Dan Tepfer is changing the definition of what a musical instrument can be.

Featured in an NPR documentary viewed by 1.5 million people, Dan Tepfer shows his pioneering skill in this concert by programming a Yamaha Disklavier to respond in real time to the music he improvises at the piano. Meanwhile, another computer program turns the music into stunning animated visual art.

Called “fascinating and ingenious” by Rolling Stone The Natural Machines performance lives at a unique intersection of mechanical and natural processes, making it “more than a solo piano album… a multimedia piece of contemporary art so well made in its process and components and expressed by such a thoughtful, talented, evocative pianist … that it becomes a complete experience” (NextBop)