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Zenph Recreates Sound of Great Musicians
By Larry Emmons

An article in the technical magazine IEEE Spectrum arrived in my
mailbox today.  It reports on new technology that recovers seemingly
lost musical performances from old recordings.  Of particular interest
is that the use of a 'robot piano' is used to reproduce the results.

Perhaps mechanical music has been reincarnated into a new life, that
is for any of us that thought it was dead.  It's just a thought, having
returned from a month in India where reincarnation is part of the Hindu
religion.  It seems to me that mechanical music will be around for
a long time, it just may be at another level.  Check out the video at

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/computing/software/hightech-startup-recreates-sound-of-great-musicians/ 

Larry Emmons

 [ A review of Zenph's reconstruction of a 1955 Glenn Gould
 [ performance is at http://www.pragprog.com/articles/a-pragmatic-project-live-in-concert/about-the-project 
 [ -- Editor (Robbie)


(Message sent Fri 17 Dec 2010, 02:30:29 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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