This video presents an overview of Open Orchestra. Special thanks to Ian Roberton, and Taylor Donaldson for their help in the making of this video.
Some children from the F.A.C.E. High School near McGill came to visit CIRMMT and got to play a bit with the web version of Open Orchestra.
One last weekend with Mr Triclops, our camera rig.
Hectic but fun weekend at Pollack Hall! We had the opportunity to record a Baroque Orchestra, lead by Prof. Hank Knox. Enjoy some pictures from our last recording for Open Orchestra.
Today -Sept 1st, 2011- there was a demo at UBC (Vancouver) with our sponsors from CANARIE. From McGill (Montreal) we were monitoring the network and their actions.
This is us looking at the screen.
Open Orchestra now lives also at the Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning. Big thank you to Steve Bellamy, Associate Dean, School of Creative & Performing Arts, Humber College Institute, for sharing these pictures with us.
Photo credits Steve Bellamy and Sylvain Bedard
… and now Open Orchestra lives also at the NAC!
Getting ready for our installations at the NAC and all our other partners. This is a sneak peak of our installation website. Exciting times!
About the Open Orchestra logo
Probably, you noticed that now Open Orchestra has a logo. The logo was designed by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo. The logo was inspired by the famous Zurich Tonhalle Beethoven poster designed by the swiss designer Josef Müller-Brockmann back in 1956.
The logo presents 5 circles referencing to the staff lines. These lines have also different sizes symbolizing the various ensembles types that Open Orchestra supports (from a sextet of Opera singers, to a Symphony orchestra).
Recording 1, 2, 3…
Currently, we are in the process of implementing the option for a musician to record himself while rehearsing with Open Orchestra. In this manner, a musician will be able to share a selected recording with a mentor or conductor and obtain more detailed feedback about his performance.
The following image is a screen capture of our recording prototype while testing audio and video synchronization in our lab (the Shared Reality Lab).
Are you curios about what else Open Orchestra will enable to do? The following image presents a model of the interactions between you (as a musician) and a conductor. To learn a bit more about this model, check our previous post.
Happy New Year! - It is 2011 and we start with another round of recordings, this time from Vancouver. The new pieces recorded are from the famous Opera by Mozart, Don Giovanni. The pieces recorded were:
a. “Sola, sola in bujo loco”
b. “Trema, trema scelerato!”
c. “Là ci darem la mano”
We now have a new video and audio streaming prototype that it is able to support multiple simultaneous synchronization between 6 independent audio tracks and a hi-definition video channel. Not only that, it is a mixer too! So, you can choose what instruments sections you would like to mute or enhance as you are playing the video. With this, a key piece in the development of Open Orchestra has been covered.
El Monolito
The first stand alone unit for Open Orchestra has arrived to CIRMMT, McGill University. We will be testing this along with the multiple displays in the next following weeks.
