{"id":7508,"date":"2012-11-08T08:38:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2012-11-08T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T13:38:13","slug":"brussels-philharmonic-a-test-bed-for-paperless-concerts-as-each-musician-gets-a-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/11\/08\/brussels-philharmonic-a-test-bed-for-paperless-concerts-as-each-musician-gets-a-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels Philharmonic a test bed for paperless concerts as each musician gets a tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/bruxelles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7511\" title=\"bruxelles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/bruxelles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brusselsphilharmonic.be\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brussels Philharmonic<\/a> and its Swiss music director Michel Tabachnik gave a concert of works by Wagner and Ravel yesterday that didn&#8217;t include a single sheet of music. It was a public relations exercise to tout its pioneering collaboration with Samsung and Belgian software startup NeoScores to make concerts fully digital.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Storing, copying, marking up and carrying musical scores is cumbersome, but, unless a sudden gust of air conditioning descends on a stage, very reliable. Anyone who has tried reading music off a tablet computer knows how easy it is to flip past the right spot accidentally, or have the screen suddenly go to sleep at the wrong moment.<\/p>\n<p>NeoScores claims it has solved these problems with its new software, and the Brussels Phil is the willing guinea pig for this beta version. There is even a special operating mode for the tablet that will prevent any extra-musical activity, such as email or text message pings. Besides eliminating the usual sources of error, NeoScores claims its software allows a conductor to instantly distribute notes to individual players or sections, and players can share notes on the fly.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung&#8217;s contribution is 100 Galaxy Note 10.1 tablets with 16GB of storage. This should, according to a press release issued by the orchestra yesterday, allow for storage of &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of orchestra scores. Interestingly, Samsung&#8217;s English-language website only offers a 32GB version of the Android-powered tablet, which weighs 597 g &#8212; less than a single volume of Beethoven piano sonatas. The battery is supposed to be good for 540 minutes of video playback, so it passes the <em>Siegfried<\/em> test.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanual Sproelants, the Brussels Phil librarian, believes that, once the organization&#8217;s scores are scanned into a digital archive, it will be able to save 25,000 euro (about $33,000) over the course of its 100-concert season.<\/p>\n<p>Neither NeoScores nor the orchestra were clear about the length of the test period or when the software may become commercially available. A free app offering a simple viewer is currently available from the Belgian startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neoscores.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brussels Philharmonic and its Swiss music director Michel Tabachnik gave a concert of works by Wagner and Ravel yesterday that didn&#8217;t include a single sheet of music. It was a public relations exercise to tout its pioneering collaboration with Samsung and Belgian software startup NeoScores to make concerts fully digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,36,39,60,61,1],"tags":[6450,587,2360,2443,2920,2948,3221,3264],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/bruxelles1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-1X6","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}