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In his 2015 Eyeo talk, Zach Lieberman talked about his interaction with points and lines with code, as well as discussing the connections and stories that comes from them. He also talked about the School for Poetic Computation that he co-founded. The school fosters an open environment and culture for projects that works in the realm of code and poetry, both physical and digital.

Lieberman talks about one of his projects, Play the World, where he created a piano that plays different sounds from different parts of the world. He took music and sounds from various radio stations and used a program to find instances where it plays or sounds like it is playing a certain music note. Each key on the piano would then be able to play its note from various parts of the world. Lieberman also allows the user to visualize where the note originated from, by having the location highlighted on a world map. With the installation of this project, the piano is surrounded by a circle of speakers, with each corresponding to an area of the world. When the piano plays a note from a certain area, the sound will come from a certain speaker. Thus adding a directional aspect to the project that is based on sound.