1. Smart Player Piano Student: Jason Pawlak Advisor: Dr. Anca Ralescu

2. Motivation Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center – Carlos Amorales’ “Psicofonias” – Wanted to take it to the next step Strong music background Enjoy the arts

3. Problem Create a player piano on the computer Draw dots for playing notes Import image to ‘play’ the image Import MIDI to ‘show’ the midi Modify image to sound pretty

4. Subproblems Remove and modify pixels without drastically changing the visual appearance Determine what key a picture is in

5. Completion Shown and heard through the application – Quality of music – Quality of image