Disklavier

Today I first heard about the IRENE project
http://irene.lbl.gov/

Apparently digital audio is duplicated from high
resolution photographs of grooves on vynl records and
other media stored in the Library of Congress
collections.  I was thinking of Zenph when I heard
about this and wonder if someday this new technology
will bring us MIDI files to play on our Disklaviers.

I am constantly amazed by technology!!

Carol Beigel

Thanks for the thoughts, Carol.  Yes, what they do will be a great 
level of "pre-processing" for our work.  So far, though, we're able 
to deal directly with the original master tapes -- that is, before 
they were pressed to LPs.  Wax cylinders are also an adventure.

John Q. Walker
Zenph Studios
http://www.zenph.com

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Carol Beigel" <thecarolb@...> 
wrote:

>
> Today I first heard about the IRENE project
> http://irene.lbl.gov/
> 
> Apparently digital audio is duplicated from high
> resolution photographs of grooves on vynl records and
> other media stored in the Library of Congress
> collections.  I was thinking of Zenph when I heard
> about this and wonder if someday this new technology
> will bring us MIDI files to play on our Disklaviers.
> 
> I am constantly amazed by technology!!
> 
> Carol Beigel