Shoot the player piano

 
Annie Gosfield lives in New York City and uses to play piano and sampler with her own group and composing for many ensembles and soloists: John Zorn, Elliott Sharp,  Ikue Mori, David Moss, Marc Ribot, Davey Williams & many others.

"Shoot the Player Piano" is a 1999 work work for video and music: an imaginary orchestra of aged and unusual mechanical instruments. Almost all of the sounds that you hear did not come from the accompanying instruments on the screen (with two exceptions: the sound of the paper roll turning, and the banjo tremolo). For this piece, she used a large library of samples detuned, altered, edited, and arranged.