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Stage, A Final Frontier

Stage, A Final Frontier Artists’ stAtements A Cure for musiCiAns AffliCted with BAumol’s diseAse: squeezing more musiC out of PerformAnCe in the Age of digitAl reProduCtion Matthew C. Lawyer. E-mail: . See for supplemental materials related to this article. application of conventional digital sound-processing technology can provide a cure for musicians afflicted with Baumol’s Disease. The experimental performance consisted of a string quartet performing an arrangement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, 4th Movement (Ode to Joy) at twice the regular listening tempo. A regular tempo version was performed as a control for the experiment. Note that the decision to use precisely twice the ordinary tempo in the experimental performance was made merely for the convenience of the musicians. The recording of the experimental performance was processed through a conventional digital audio workstation in order to slow down the tempo to the same tempo as the control performance, with concordant changes in pitch. The experimental performance required half the performance time of the control performance, yet both performances produced the same amount of music. Thus, the heretofore limitation of a 1-to-1 ratio has been overcome. evidence that there is a human sense of time, a physiologic rhythm that may follow a different beat http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Leonardo Music Journal MIT Press

Stage, A Final Frontier

Roebroeks, Erwin
Leonardo Music Journal , Volume December 2008 (18) – Dec 1, 2008
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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Subject
Artists' Statements
ISSN
0961-1215
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1531-4812
DOI
10.1162/lmj.2008.18.41a
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Artists’ stAtements A Cure for musiCiAns AffliCted with BAumol’s diseAse: squeezing more musiC out of PerformAnCe in the Age of digitAl reProduCtion Matthew C. Lawyer. E-mail: . See for supplemental materials related to this article. application of conventional digital sound-processing technology can provide a cure for musicians afflicted with Baumol’s Disease. The experimental performance consisted of a string quartet performing an arrangement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, 4th Movement (Ode to Joy) at twice the regular listening tempo. A regular tempo version was performed as a control for the experiment. Note that the decision to use precisely twice the ordinary tempo in the experimental performance was made merely for the convenience of the musicians. The recording of the experimental performance was processed through a conventional digital audio workstation in order to slow down the tempo to the same tempo as the control performance, with concordant changes in pitch. The experimental performance required half the performance time of the control performance, yet both performances produced the same amount of music. Thus, the heretofore limitation of a 1-to-1 ratio has been overcome. evidence that there is a human sense of time, a physiologic rhythm that may follow a different beat

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Published: Dec 1, 2008

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