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Re: New Technology Recaptures Pianists of the Past
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:09:26 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: June 1, 2007 9:42:36 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Re: [IP] New Technology Recaptures Pianists of the Past Dave, It's not really a fair comparison I know, but somehow this reminds me of the B&W film colorization fad of some years ago. I can see novelty and academic value in the "reperformance" process, but not much beyond that. True, the dirty little "secret" of classical music recordings is that since the invention of magnetic tape most of them are intensely edited, often down to just one note at a time! Still, those are at least usually the originally recorded notes. The classical music segment is dying, and this isn't the way to inspire young artists with the rich history of the genre and perhaps save it. "Not the real performance, but an amazing recreation" is a novelty, not history. Also, those comparison clips are not particularly convincing. The 1926 example of course is something of a worst case, but could be made *much* cleaner by removing the vinyl recording artifacts through common audio processing techniques. This leaves the original artist's work without the need for computerized "reperformance." And the 1955 recording sounded damned good as it was to my admittedly not "golden ears." Certainly interesting technology, but not classical's savior either. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Founder, CIFIP - California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com - - -
Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: May 31, 2007 8:20:50 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] New Technology Recaptures Pianists of the Past [Note: This item comes from reader Mike Cheponis. DLH] From: Mike Cheponis <mac () wireless com> Date: May 31, 2007 2:37:26 PM PDT Subject: New Technology Recaptures Pianists of the Past <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10439850> Truly amazing. Listen to the "before" and "after" clips on that page. Bringing "yesterday's" music up to today's quality is just... amazing! ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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