Zenph is creating building blocks for the musical equivalent of software you know from text and graphics. Our first offering is a service that’s something like “OCR (optical character recognition) for piano recordings.” We take piano recordings and convert them back into the precise, nuanced keystrokes and pedal motions that would have been used to create them. This is done in a new format which can be played back with phenomenal reality on corresponding computer-controlled grand pianos. Horowitz, Glenn Gould, and Art Tatum can literally play “live” again. Consider the potential for extracting “artistic DNA.” What distinctive things did Horowitz do that made him unique as a performer?

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