- Peter Otto for supporting this project
- Neal Boceik for unlocking my keycard and thus granting me access to the piano
- Brady Baker for putting up with my persistent requests for equipment
- Kaitlen Conner for lending me her rosin
- Robert Asami for taking most of the pictures used for this project and for helping with videography (and keeping me company)
- Justin Chen for also helping with videogrpahy
- Daniel Hwang, Kandice Wong, Teddy Hidalgo, Florence Lee, and Justin Shih for keeping me company
- Tiffany Guerrero, Hannah Wang, Nina Wang, Lawrence Park, Caroline Sheng, and Justin Chan for lending their voices to this project
- Amy Kuo, and Stephanie Yao for being my focus group
- Jessica Hsu for volunteering her roommate, Caroline Sheng, to sing
- Joshua Weinstein for showing me the wonders of the prepared piano
- Ling Lee for teaching me how to play the piano (and for putting up with me for, like, 8 years)
These are some of the torture methods I employed to make this project work:
- Clothes stuffed inside piano (Traveling)
- Stomping on pedal (Traveling)
- [classified] (Traveling)
- Screws between strings (Counting Sheep, ReadySteadyGo)
- Magnets on strings (Counting Sheep, ReadySteadyGo)
- Altoid tins on strings (Counting Sheep)
- Slapping the piano body (Counting Sheep)
- Plucked piano (Mist)
- Speaker inside piano (Scribbles)
- Bowed piano (Four)
- Striking strings with mallet (ReadySteadyGo)
- Slapping strings (ReadySteadyGo)
- Hitting piano body with drum sticks (ReadySteadyGo)
- Pounding piano body (ReadySteadyGo)