{"id":60332,"date":"2026-09-15T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/events\/disklavier-network-part-ii-luciano-pavarotti-conservatory-of-modena\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:04:33","slug":"disklavier-network-part-ii-luciano-pavarotti-conservatory-of-modena","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/events\/disklavier-network-part-ii-luciano-pavarotti-conservatory-of-modena\/","title":{"rendered":"Disklavier Network Part II \/ \u201cLuciano Pavarotti\u201d Conservatory of Modena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disklavier and Technology: Presentation of a \u201cChaotic\u201d Musical Instrument and Research on Player-Piano Rolls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Davide Bigoni<\/strong>, Professor of Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento, will introduce a \u201cchaotic\u201d musical instrument recently presented in Modena during the Festival of Philosophy, whose theme this year was precisely&nbsp;<strong>\u201cChaos.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presentation will be followed by an introduction to an innovative new machine developed thanks to funding from research projects at the Pavarotti Conservatory. With contributions from musicologist&nbsp;<strong>Prof. Pietro Zappal\u00e0<\/strong>&nbsp;and pianist&nbsp;<strong>Carlo Balzaretti<\/strong>, the session will demonstrate how this new device is capable of reading player-piano rolls produced for virtually any system or manufacturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presentation will include musical examples drawn from the remarkable collection of more than\u00a0<strong>1,600 piano rolls<\/strong> held by the Conservatory in Modena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Modena.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Modena.jpeg 1002w, https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Modena-300x257.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Modena-768x659.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61390,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[270,268],"event_type_2":[766],"class_list":["post-60332","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-stradivari-room","event_organizer-yamaha-music-europe-gmbh-branch-italy-en","event_type-music-culture-en","event_type-piano-en","event_type_2-saturday-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/60332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/60332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61546,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/60332\/revisions\/61546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60332"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=60332"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=60332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}