A Frankenstein experiment combining the greatest musical invention of all time, the Piano; with the coolest amusement machines ever conceived; Pinball, to create an interactive sound installation like no other; Pinball Pianola, a musical instrument constructed by replacing the hammers and front paneling of an upright piano with a pinball cabinet butted up perpendicular against its exposed strings.
Embracing high and low culture the game allows virtuosos and wizards alike to pit their skills in a game where musical compositions are created as metallic balls jettisoned into the game clash with the pianos wires as players joggle them about using twenty individual flippers triggered by the pianos keys.
The traditionally loud pinball experience is created by amplifying the soundboard with contact microphones connected to audio processors like fuzz, ring modulation, envelope filters etc. These are controlled via six pinball targets situated in the playfield turning them on or off when hit. The parameters of the sounds can then be adjusted via a console mounted onto the games cabinet.
USA 
Tour 2017 - 2019 booking now
14 -170917 High Zero Festival, Baltimore
2009 -181017 Eyedrum, Atlanta
107-101217 IRL institute / Art Basel, Miami
Previous Exhibitions.
Gamerz Festival 
Marseille, Novemeber 2016
Sonic Protest Paris, April 2016
Ton Ton Club, 
Amsterdam, March 2016
Cable#9 Nantes, Febuary 2016
Les Ateliers Claus / brussels-art-days 
Brussels, September 2015
Phaeno, Science Center, 
Wolfsburg, May - Sept 2015
Do Disturb / Palais de Tokyo Paris, April 2015
107 Projects 
Sydney March 2013
ISEA Sydney January 2013
First Draft Sydney Novemeber 2012
MCA artbar Sydney October 2012
artspace Sydney May 2012
Devised and Constructed by Lucas Abela
Playfield art and decals by Keg de Souza
Audio Processors Electronic Engineering By Hirofumi Uchino
Supported by the Australia Council of the Arts
Additional development assistance by Danial Stocks
