Klarinet Archive - Posting 000553.txt from 2005/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Conducting without a baton
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:05:18 -0500

Tony Pay wrote:

> It might be worth posting here something I wrote a few years ago,
> about the possibility of constructing a 'conducting machine'.

Probably your best bet for this would be to get in touch with one of the
Japanese AI/robotics research centres. The combination of brains, money
and engineering capability is pretty difficult to beat.

The problem I see is that it would be difficult to extend it beyond
being simply an expensive and cumbersome click-track, for reasons you
have already identified---that the conductor interacts with players in
real time, whereas this system would interact only with a programmed
version of the music.

As a training tool, however, I wonder if maybe a better tack might be to
use some of the dance choreography software that, for example, Merce
Cunningham uses, which enables him to programme in quite some detail the
movements of dancers so as to plan and teach his routines.

-- Joe

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