I caught up with John Q. Walker a bit on the break to ask him about where the Disklavier technology is going. John did the demo with the recreated performances that blew everyone in the conference away.
Yearly Archives: 2007
Vignettes: Paul Horowitz
December 3, 2007 – 1:24 pm
Lets’s compress the time between the sun forming and today into one “day.” Life formed around 05:20. The last hour, dinosaurs became exect at 11:39. In the last minute, neaderthals didn’t come until 11:59:58.1. Here’s the picture of the graph. Paul said that when he tells people that there are more stars than grains of […]
Brian Greene
December 3, 2007 – 1:13 pm
In the decades that ended in the mid 1920s, Scientists did work that resulted in a fundamental understanding of the world like we never could have before. The contributions of quantum mechanics stand on their own. People don’t understand the basics of quantum mechanics. He showed some examples of “quantum” being misused. He’s going to […]
John Q. Walker
December 3, 2007 – 10:35 am
The dream of listeners everywhere is to be there for a live performance, it’s the ultimate experience . Zenph Studios wants to separate performance and recording. He’s about to play the 1955 version live. They digitize 70+ factors of every note. The Yamaha Disklavier piano just performed Gordon Gould performing two of the Goldberg Variations. […]
Don Katz
December 3, 2007 – 10:34 am
Was a writer for 20 years, and a business guy for 12. CEO of Audible.com. We rarely find time to talk about what the new technology nad media culture actually means. Media is the sum of discruptive inventions that have changed the status quo. Audible continues the oral tradition that predated books. The paperback book […]
Brewster Kahle
December 3, 2007 – 9:55 am
“If you’re going to give an upbeat technological talk, don’t come after Andrew Keen.” We need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don’t do that we’re going to get the generation we deserve. I grew up in a television generation, the closest I could get to […]
Andrew Keen
December 3, 2007 – 9:29 am
For me, media is about the distribution of high quality information and entertainment. It’s about the exchange of money for that entertainment. That’s the media economy. He thinks the media economy is in “deep sh**.” Recently Radiohead tried to figure out a new business model for online, they should allow people to set their own […]
Jim Citrin
December 3, 2007 – 9:11 am
Jim is a executive headhunter. Last night at dinner someone stopped him to talk about enhanced metadata and standards, she thought he did a different kind of “search.” He’s asking a series of questions: Where are you in your career? first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourh courter, retired How do you assess yourself in […]
Rob Glaser
December 3, 2007 – 8:48 am
He’s going to talk about something outside of work, Real Networks. A joint effort of the Glaser Progress Foundation and the Center for American Progress. They want to treat “progressive” like a brand that is nutured and managed, just like any other brand. They want to educate Americans about what it means to be a […]
The Entertainment Gathering 