grandbrothers

 

Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel, students in the Audio and Video Engineering program, call themselves grandbrothers, and have made it their objective to use experimental playing techniques to coax new sounds and rhythms out of the grand piano.
Alongside the grand piano and a laptop, amongst other things they are working with twenty electromagnetic hammers they developed themselves. These hammers can be individually controlled using the laptop, and are either mounted in fixed positions, or are suspended on pendulums. They do not only strike piano wires, but also certain resonance areas of the grand piano, producing both notes and percussive sounds.
The project is being supervised by IMM professor Phillip Schulze within the framework of their Audio 2 exam.