[lit-ideas] Re: Reproduced music
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:02:45 EDT
Sleep? Sleep?? I'm getting my children ready for school, driving 1/2 hour
away to do billing and back, sorting through the remains of my youngest
daughter's detritus that's on my dining room table from re-doing (complete
with
new carpeting, paint, wall-paper border, new furniture) her bedroom. Then
there's the laundry and dishes. And the kitchen drawers that I have to apply
Kilz to and paint. And the bath faucet I have to fix. And the forms to fill
out for summer band camp and trash service to call because they've screwed up
again and principal to call because the schools just ......aren't working
right......And ....... sleep?!?!?! Qu'est-ce que c'est ca?
Julie Krueger
having waking nightmares about the day already
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Betcha Glenn Gould won't hum during this concert, though. Weird indeed.
Go to sleep, Julie.
Best,
Carol, catching up
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>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1517&e=10&u=/afp/afplifestylem
> usic
>
> Okay, this is just ...weird.....
>
> <<Ghost concert to revive music of the past
>
> Wed Apr 20, 2:52 PM ET
>
>
> PARIS (AFP) - Music lovers in North Carolina are due for a strange treat
> next month.
>
>
> They will hear two piano virtuosi in concert... but both musicians are
> long
> dead.
>
>
> The music will be played on a grand piano that has been specially
> programmed
> to give a note-perfect, live rendition of ancient recordings made by
> Alfred
> Cortot in 1928 and Glenn Gould in 1962.
>
>
> "The piano will replicate every note struck, down to the velocity of the
> hammer and position of the key when it was played," the British weekly
> magazine
> New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue.
>
>
> The key to the phantom concert lies in the transcription of the scratchy
> recordings into a high-resolution version of MIDI, the standard format
> for
> encoding music for computers.
>
>
> The usual problem with MIDI transcription is polyphony -- distinguishing
> several notes that are played simultaneously.
>
>
> Attempts to transcribe polyphonic notes are typically only 80 percent
> successful, says New Scientist. About 10 percent of polyphonic notes are
> missing
> and another 10 percent are mistranscribed, which can give the replicated
> music a
> hollowness or discordance.
>
>
> Zenph Studios, a software company based in Raleigh, North Carolina,
> claims
> that it has found a solution to the problem, although it refuses to say
> how
> for commercial reasons.
>
>
> It has successfully tried out the Cortot and Gould pieces on the
> Disklavier
> Pro, one of only a few concert grand pianos that can record and play back
> high-definition MIDI files.
>
>
> A concert will be held in Raleigh next month in which Corto -- dead since
> 1962 -- will "play" a Chopin prelude, while Gould, in his grave since
> 1982,
> will "perform" Bach's 'Goldberg Variations'.
>
>
> By faithfully transcribing the notes and reproducing them exactly as they
> were played at the time, the technique could haul out of the archives
> innumerable sound recordings that have never been released because of
> flaws such as
> background noise.
>
>
> Zenph's next project is to clean up a recording made at a private party
> by
> by the jazz giant Art Tatum two years before his death in 1956, the report
> says. >>
>
>
>
>
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