Public staircase turned into piano keyboard

Craft & Design Music Technology

If you’re impatient with the preamble and want to see it work, scan forward to about 0:39. [via Hack a Day]

14 thoughts on “Public staircase turned into piano keyboard

  1. Anonymous says:

    This made me smile. Can anyone translate the text?

    1. Richard says:

      Can we make more people choose the stairs by making them more fun?

      Odenplan, Stockholm, Sweden

      66% more people than normally chose the stairs over the escalator

  2. unwind says:

    I didn’t actually view all of it, but the opening question is “can we get more people to take the stairs by making them fun?”.

    I think I passed through this very station on the day of filming, I remember seeing a bunch of people doing rigging work close close to the staircase. Never got to see it working in full-blown piano-mode, though.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Something similar (musical steps) was set up at the St. Paul Science Museum (MN) decades ago. I watched in both horror and amusement as someone fell down the steps.

    There should have been a rim shot at the bottom…

  4. Anonymous says:

    It could be interesting have a contest. Find different locations with steps next to escalators and find interesting ways to convince people to use the steps like they did here (without talking to them). Whoever has the highest percentage of stair use wins!!!

  5. Anonymous says:

    Thefuntheory.com

  6. trevize says:

    A similar concept was used by artists Lara Usic, Margherita Pevere and Ivan Penov in Scorzé (Italy), may 2009.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKQqCgb6vo

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