I guess I am just jealous ebcause I don't have an Iphone. seriously, the few times I used my Android to control the piano were just to "impress" guests and as you suggest,they were more impressed with the technology than the music. I have found that very few people really care to listen to music other than as background. generally, i find background music annoying even if it is great music. i feel like a hearing impaired person (which i will be at some point because it runs in my family) who is missing a lot and prefer to just have conversation with friends without the distraction. when i do listen to music i often change my decision as to what to listen to next based on how i responded to what i last heard and like to have a clear large display and all the tools media monkey has to offer to make the browsing and choices easier. if i had a better memory or better touchscreen skills maybe i could get by with a phone. i am amazed at my niece's ability to navigate her phone. i can find things faster on my computer or tablet but she is a close second.
i probably responded too snarkily because it annoys me that there is so much great music and that most people only get a small part of it by not listening. i now understand the frustration of my high school music teachers. it has been proven in several recent studies that people are much worse at multi tasking than they think and that the people who think they are good at it are usually the worst. if you are a professional musician and have heard a piece a million times, you might be able to hear it and even evaluate it critically while engaged in conversation but i still think you can not really experience it fully as a complex communication between the composer and listener.
On 6/27/2013 8:26 AM, Edward Mitoma wrote:
Wow Horatio is sensitive!
I use multiple methods...PC, Mac and iOS devices. For seriously listening and yes backround music at parties. The phone is simply a much easier way to do this. I have a larger file system accessible by computer. But controlling Disklavier Radio via iOS is just much more convenient. That is why someone would want to use a phone. Plus it amazes your friends even more than the amazing piano does on it's own. Snarky is as snarky does...
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Re: [disklavier] DKVs using iOS and OSX
2013-06-27 by Horatio Kemeny
As a very simple experiment, do this. Find some obscure piece you've never heard, something for a quartet or quintet. Listen to the piece two or three times. Although you'll be noticing little things each subsequent time, it's pretty much the same piece.
Now listen to it again, but specifically focus on only one instrument. Violin, cello, whatever. Do this for all the different instruments (which I why I suggest something with less instrumentation). After listening to the last isolated instrument, now listen again, at the whole thing. You will hear everything the composer intended, and you've done so by familiarizing yourself with every nuance, not how it sounds as a whole, but independently. But the human brain is fantastic at combining all that information, creating a whole that's far bigger than the sum of the parts. Indeed, that's what good music is… so to go after professional musicians as being too close to the music to truly appreciate it… well, no.
On the other topic, I'm not sure ahas the Android app does. The iPhone app allows pretty much all of the control available, including the ability to search and access all of the stored content… in a very convenient and intuitive manner.
While on that topic I have a question regarding the internal HDD, but that belongs in its own thread… I'll write a separate message.
…..HK
On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Spencer Chase <lists@...> wrote: