{"product_id":"mario-piano","title":"MARIO PIANO","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry \/ Object. New Material Books with Space Dust Editions, 2026. Manual + blue receipt paper roll in watermelon AMAC Plastic 530C box. Manual: 20 pages, 5.5.\"x4\". | Scroll: 2.25\"x35\". | AMAC box: 1.6\"x1.6\"x2.9\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText by Brandan Griffin\u003cbr\u003eDesign by New Material Books\u003cbr\u003eScroll Printed by Space Dust Editions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e♦️Now open for pre-orders🔹\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: November 14\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll pre-orders include a free \u003cem\u003eMario Piano\u003c\/em\u003e sticker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCustomers in Kansas City can select \"Pick Up\" to get their copy in-store on or after Nov. 14th.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom NMB\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eMario Piano\u003c\/em\u003e is poetry as video game, piano score, instruction manual, and artificial life—two interacting texts in unique physical media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part, \u003cem\u003eMario Piano \u003c\/em\u003eitself, is a scroll that maps Level 1 of \u003cem\u003eSuper Mario Bros.\u003c\/em\u003e The reader scrolls left to right as the poem traces platforms, clouds, enemies, power-ups, and possible paths a player might take. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike our previous receipt publications, this scroll is fully legible. Punctuation, letters, word fragments, and unusual sentence rhythms travel up and down the horizontal page, a reading experience hovering between video game and music. The scroll is inspired by both ASCII art and player-piano rolls, whose punched holes visualize sound patterns that are fed through an automated piano. The scroll is printed by our steadfast companion Space Dust Editions, currently based in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNext, the \u003cem\u003eMario Piano Manual\u003c\/em\u003e uses poetic diagrams and prose poems to “instruct” and “explain” how \u003cem\u003eMario Piano\u003c\/em\u003e automatically comes to life in the reader’s mind. In doing so, the manual takes on a life of its own, buoyed by a semi-grammatical syntax that emulates the leaps, sprints, and reversals of video game movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, \u003cem\u003eMario Piano\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eMario Piano Manual \u003c\/em\u003eform a looped aesthetic system, an artificial life-form that plays into existence as the music of reading. A poetry console.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by New Material Books, with receipt scrolls printed by Space Dust Editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*\u003cem\u003eMario Piano\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMario Piano Manual \u003c\/em\u003eare unofficial, unaffiliated works of poetry inspired by \u003cem\u003eSuper Mario Bros.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Material Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50690162655407,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/8479\/4799\/files\/mariopianolaunch_1.jpg?v=1792261471","url":"https:\/\/newmaterialbooks.com\/products\/mario-piano","provider":"New Material Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}