[Fmpro] conducting workshop (RE: even more qstns)

[Brian Wilbur Grundstrom]

It is Paul Henry Smith
paul at fauxharmonic.com

Brian Wilbur Grundstrom
Composer
1453 S Street NW
Washington DC  20009
hm 202-232-3316
cell 917-952-7957
brian at brianwilbur.com
www.brianwilbur.com


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From: fmpro-bounces+brian=brianwilbur.com at nxport.com
[mailto:fmpro-bounces+brian=brianwilbur.com at nxport.com] On Behalf Of andrew
feazelle
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:10 PM
To: fmpro at nxport.com
Subject: [Fmpro] conducting workshop (RE: even more qstns)

Hi Andrew -

Wish I could tell you - we had so few signups for that workshop that we had
to cancel it - I really thought it would have been more popular, but
apparently getting some hands-on education about composing wasn't of
interest to many.

We'll keep trying!

Best,

Mark Northam
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Thanks Mark, 

That's too bad about the cancelation.  There's a guy out of Boston who runs
a "faux orchestra", which is to say he programs computers with the Vienna
Symphonic Library and gives electronic concerts.  I can't think of his name,
but he has rigged a Wii controller (the motion sensitive controller for
Nintendo's Wii video game console) to Logic via midi and conducts (at least
tempo-wise, and a little velocity sensitive stuff-wise) his computer by the
vertical wave of the controller (the vertical pulse translates to pushing
the music forward one beat).  

 This may seem silly, but it leaves the posibility of conducting a single
live player or a small group of live players in your home along with your
midi synth, alleviating the need for a live player to learn and follow a
click track (seems the classical players prefer to be conducted versus
following a click).  The technology is still in its infancy, and i haven't
heard of anyone trying this approach to score sweetening, but maybe some
day?  And if so, you'll possibly have a larger pool of composers to appeal
to if part of a workshop includes a synth/live hybrid conducting component.


See ya, 

A Fez
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