Re: Remote Ensemble Playing

[Christian Masser]

Hi!

I think whether it's easier with only click or with click+MIDI purely depends on the player's own stability in terms of intonation and rhythm. (And in terms of MIDI accompaniment you have to pay special attention to the tuning of the MIDI instrument.)

Having done a few of this recordings myself I found that for chorales or hymn tunes it's easier having a MIDI track because of the many small corrections you have to make in tuning depending on the harmony you're in while on the other hand it's mostly easier for rhythmically difficult pieces to just play along the click.

But this is all probably very subjective to my own musical approach.

All the best

Christian

PS: Sorry Gianmaria, I accidentally answered to you directly without posting to the list.

Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden> schrieb am Mi., 1. Apr. 2020, 11:13:

Ciao Urs!

On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 09:05, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2020, 08:51 +0200 schrieb Gianmaria Lari:

Off topic but very interesting :)

Does anyone have any idea how these people is able to do things like these?

https://youtu.be/Sj4pE_bgRQI

https://youtu.be/3eXT60rbBVk

I think the Rotterdam Philharmonic information says it all: Most of the solutions that pop up so far are not "playing together" but playing separately to a preproduced "click track", whether this is an actual click track or a video recording of the conductor. Then every musician plays their part and someone does the digital post production.

Could be a "click track" a "neutral" recording maybe a midi file temporized according a conductor? So that each player can play "with" the music?

I'm asking this because, of course the orchestral musician are professional, but to play an instrument part without the other instrumental parts and only following a metronome (or a video of the conductor) doesn't look easy.  

Does anyone know if this (temporized midi file) is something that people do? Or they really only watch a click track (a video with the score and the beating metronome)?

Thanks, g.

P.S. Hope my english is understandable.