HALF MOON BAY Unusual performance art sees aging piano sound its last notes by the ocean. By Ellen Huet Updated Feb 11, 2013 8:35 a.m.

Now, if it's a very responsive piano, and you're the virtuoso Craig Taborn, and you can maintain that blank-slate willingness to let the instrument lead you on, that can be a beautiful thing.

While interviewing Alma at her piano, Pelley draws from a hat four cards with musical notes on them: B, A, E flat, G. She announces the four notes' solfège names and considers them silently ...

Most (but not all!) tracks need one, but when you're staring at that blank piano roll, how do you actually start to program ...

“A lot of times, what can work best in terms of creepiness is just utter simplicity. Sometimes just a few notes on the piano are enough to be scarier than a 90-piece orchestra doing crazy stuff. I ...

Instead of hitting one key and getting one note, Arnalds can hit one key and get a multitude of unanticipated notes. That does pose one problem, though: There's no way to replicate what the piano ...