This CD has twenty-three tracks for, or rather, about the piano by three composers, none of whom play the piano. The first five tracks are by Steve MacLean. The first is a four-second extravaganza in which a piano is dropped from a 100-foot crane (by the way, in real life, don't do this at home, tense stretched strings fly dangerously when snapped). Following, are four tracks of quite wonderful, little, melodious compositions made from sampled string scratching, striking, hand mute, etc. of piano bodies and strings. Tracks 6 through 18, with wonderful titles, are by C.W. Vrtacek and were realized using the early and simple Ensoniq Mirage sampler (running a piano sample) connected to a basic Yamaha sequencer, some pieces playing at impossibly fast tempi. Among the pieces are: Penguin Pulling A Cart, He Thinks Only A Little At A Time These Days., All These Fine Ideas Disappearing, A Man Shaking Hands With A Squid, First There Were Three Eggs, Then Four Oranges, There Is No Hope For People Like That, Don't Drop Those Coins in the Soup, and Look! Out On The Pond! Ducks!. The third composer, Nick Didkovsky, employed the most high tech method for his five pieces: a Kurzweil PX1000 piano module controlled by an Amiga 3000 computer running the Hierarchical Music Specification Language software designed by three composers at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. Each of the set of five pieces, collectively entitled The Twittering Machine, are individually titled after paintings by Paul Klee.