Last year an important creative project was undertaken when Sound Architect Ernest Cholakis was given permission by the Roy Thomson Hall to sample and analyze Gould's original piano. Cholakis was commissioned by The National Ballet of Canada to transcribe and then recreate on a Yamaha Disklavier the 1981 Glenn Gould performance of the Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations for their performance of "Inspired by Gould".

Cholakis' project was unique in that it was the first time technology would be applied to recreate a legendary recording live. To undertake this Cholakis applied his over 20 years of experience working with music and computer technology (with an Apple PowerPC) to do the necessary analysis.Cholakis developed the proprietary software to analyze and then create a midi file for the Yamaha C7 disklavier, made available by Yamaha Canada, which was able to approximate the timing, the attack velocity and duration of Gould 's original performance in the 1981 Sony Recording. 

The National Ballet of Canada's "A Disembodied Voice" features a score by John Oswald for the recorded voice of Glenn Gould, robot piano, ghost pianist, and orchestra. The piece premiered in the programme entitled "Inspired by Gould" which ran from November 20th to the 27th 1999 at the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto.

The half hour composition is in 10 sections, each of which takes a different angle on Gould's musical preoccupations. Several technological innovations were utilized by a team under the direction of Oswald which researched and created materials during most of 1999.
A major bit of sonic archeology was the dissecting of Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of the Aria of the Goldberg Variations. First the piano was filtered out of the recording as much as possible, leaving Gould's inadvertent vocalizations as a more prominent element. Christopher Butterfield in Victoria made a phonetic and music notation transcription of this vocal line. Where there was difficulty ascertaining a sound the team studied a video tape of the Gould recording session to see what Glenn's mouth was doing.