5.20.2004

Sheet music becomes screen music -- very cool NYTimes piece on the MusicPad, a wireless tablet device that allows musicians to scan in zillions of pages of sheet music and read and edit it digitally. Neato! This might have come in handy last night -- Miss Kim and I went to see "Elegies: A Song Cycle" at the SpeakEasy Theater, sung by five players and accompanied for 90 minutes straight by one very tough pianist. He had to not only turn pages of the spiral-bound score, but he took quick swipes at his hair or his aching neck in between phrases, ouch! The MusicPad can sit on the piano, and "flip" to the next page in the score with a quick touch to a remote, or you can set it to automatically "look ahead" half a page, woah. Hey, if it's good enough for David Bowie's band...

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