Re: Remote Ensemble Playing

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Mittwoch, den 01.04.2020, 11:33 +0200 schrieb 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.
>
> One issue is that in 99% of classical music (with the exception of many
> contemporary music ensemble pieces and maybe the Bolero) musicians do
> *not* go along with a strict click track. Therefore usually a video of
> a conductor will musically be more adequate. Of course having many
> musicians perform against that video without hearing others will
> usually not result in really synchronized playing.
> One possibility might be having one instrument play along with the
> conductor video, then have the next musician play along that video
> while listening to the first recording and so on. That might work out
> to produce a decent recording (with unreasonable amounts of technical
> trickery), but I have to second Ralf in saying this is not really
> playing together. "Making music together" (but not at the same time)
> might capture the idea better ...

You can reiterate.  Start with people just seeing the conductor, then
give everyone a mix without their own track and rerecord.  After a few
iterations, it's becoming pretty close to playing together.

-- 
David Kastrup