Thank you we appreciate your interest in our work. It's an unalloyed thrill to hear the greatest pianists in history play again on high-resolution reproducing pianos. Yamaha's Disklavier Pro makes this possible; the goose-bump effect never seems to wear off. We would love to get our re-performances playing on your pianos.
It's interesting that your questions arose in the midst of other copyright discussions this past week on the forum. We strive for faithful accuracy in our re-performances, and thus they represent the image and likeness of the original artists. This means that the labels and the estates of these legendary performers don't allow us to sell our re-performances commercially without protection of their rights.
We already sell our files for the high-resolution LX systems, by Live Performance, Inc., since they natively have a deep level of encryption.
We can't seem to get to a similar place with Yamaha's Disklavier teams, who offer no such protection as part of their instrument operating systems. We're working with three divisions, which may be part of the challenge. We signed a contract with Yamaha Music Interactive (YMIA) in 2008, the division through which the files would be sold but they offer no protection. The team at Yamaha Corporation of America (YCA) has offered several alternate proposals, including downloads directly onto Mark IV hard drives and Disklavier Radio, but we can't seem to get technical follow-through by the Yamaha team in Japan (YCJ).
Much of our future work involves video the original musicians in utter sync with our high-resolution re-performances (wow you gotta see this!), so we can see that future rights management will involve both the video and the re-performance files. Today's industry-standard protocol clearly uses the HDMI interface, which would be the right interface for us going forward. (It's good to see Blu-ray players at less than $100 this holiday season.)
Our Zenph team continues to be optimistic that Yamaha will shortly implement protocols that afford protection of the artists' rights. Trust us, we'll make our re-performances available to all of you as soon as it happens. It's why we started our company!
In the meantime, the experience of the live show is wonderful we had a standing ovation at its opening last night. Here's the podcast on NPR: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/Piano_Starts_Here.mp3
I look forward to seeing you if you're in the Raleigh area in the next week
John Q. Walker, Zenph Sound Innovations, www.zenph.com
--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Twothbeave wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [disklavier] our Art Tatum show in Raleigh, Dec. 8-19
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> Wouldn't it be great if Yamaha INTERNET RADIO could pick that up and broadcast that. I'd pay for that!!
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> We'd like to invite you to our production "Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here," in Raleigh the next couple of weeks. It's a thrilling one-man show, with an actor onstage playing the role of Art's friend. The part of Art Tatum is played by a superb Yamaha Mark IV Disklavier Pro.
> It's a great chance to hear Yamaha's premier instrument in tiptop shape, played by one of the greatest jazz pianists ever. For us, it feels good finally to be able to scale up some -- to run a show for more than just one night!
> I look forward to seeing you there
> - John Q. Walker, Zenph Sound Innovations
> http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/05/841492/pianist-gets-over due-spotlight.html
> http://www.zenph.com/art-tatum-piano-starts-here
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