Klarinet Archive - Posting 000369.txt from 2002/11
From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] page turns
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:41:40 -0500
At 12:06 PM 11/6/2002 -0500, Nick Simicich wrote:
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.
It seems to me that these screens were discussed here some time ago, and it
was suggested then that the "copyright police" would have a screaming,
hairy FIT over the digital reproductions of the music that would be
required by this technology.
Bill Hausmann
If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
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