Klarinet Archive - Posting 000300.txt from 2002/11

From: Nick Simicich <njs@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] page turns
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:26:49 -0500

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At 06:16 AM 2002-11-06 -0700, William Semple wrote:
>Something tells me that seeing an array of flat screen monitors on a stage
>at Carnegie Hall will somehow spoil the view . . .

I thought about this, and, well, were I designing this product, I would
make it look like a music stand. Paint it black. They would be about the
same angle and size as the current music stands.

There is no reason to make it look like the current flat screens. Nor to
put them in the face of the players - they could be put where sheet music
is now. But the far future (10 years) may be roll-up monitors
(http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t271-s2124748,00.html) or unfolding
monitors that look exactly like a music book or trifold. You unfold them,
and put them on a music stand. There is a little box on the floor, and it
has a microphone, of course. You tell it which piece of music you want,
and how you want it transposed, and then you put it on a music stand and it
displays it. The "footpedal" is just a mouse where you tap the select key
with your foot...unless, of course, the page changes are controlled from
the conductor's station, with the player controlling how much advance they
want on any particular page change. No wires, by then they will have a
working, secure wireless lan (OK, maybe not secure :-) ) and maybe, in 20
years, people in the audience who want to follow along will rent a
"program" in the lobby, a battery operated device that allows them to
follow any player's music by logging in to the conducting LAN and getting
the music and changes (and perhaps the player's and conductor's marginal
notes), as well as the stuff you might find in a program today, and
Internet access to some interesting articles. But if you look at the
stage, the experience will be much as it is now - audiences are such
traditionalists.

--
If you doubt that magnet therapy works, I put to you this observation: When
refrigerators were first invented, in the 1940s, they were rather
unreliable, but then they became significantly more reliable. The basic
design of the refrigerator did not change, and we all know that quality was
important back then, so I doubt that newer refrigerators are made better.
Refrigerators have become more reliable because of the rise of the
refrigerator magnet.
Nick Simicich - njs@-----.com

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