Dutch filmmaker Guido van der Werve built (had built?) this chess board/piano for his upcoming film “Nummer Twaalf.” It was played in a concert at the Marshall Chess Club with a nine-piece string orchestra last Friday, and there don’t seem to be any videos of it in action yet. The squares of the chess board function as keys (above the frame of the photo).

I assume that it is set up such that a chess game, which you could represent with chess notation as a novel kind of musical score. If so, that is awesome.

I’ll post the video link when it goes live (he supposedly has a trailer “coming soon” on his website).

(via NYTimes)