Hello Dark:
So I also tell you as a professional musician myself how can you learn
and analyze pieces like Rachmaninnoffs Second Concerto with tupplets of
dozens of notes in one beat in both hands without reading it?
Are you superman?
And if we don't need to read, why sighted musicians use scores. They
have the same ears as we do?
How can you follow a university lesson of analysis in music without the
braille score: will you take a piece with hundreds of bars and you will
remember all notes of all voices, all articulations, fingerings, text
notes etc.
I don't understand why we blind people want to be diffrent if we can
play the card of integration. I am playing with a group, everyone has a
score. We say we will start from bar 38, I have my electronic braille
score on my braille display (I type 38 on the search box and I am there.
Why do I have to be different?
As my friend Bill McCann from DancingDots says, it is always sad when
young blind musicians have to leave music university because of their
lack of knowledge in music braille. And believe me, he knows about some
stories.
I really would like to know how can we make classical music performance
in a professional level knowing that sighted musicians use scores since
hundreds of years and by that they have all the access to the
information, composers autographs, all articulations etc etc. Don't you
know that sometime playing unproperly articulations in one musical
phrase is enough to loose a competition or get bad records from music
critics in newspapers?
Cheers,
Jorge
Em 12/12/2013 16:30, dark escreveu:
Hi George.
As a professional musician and singer myself I personally disagree
entirely about braille music, but that is not an arguement to have here.
Regarding braille display and writing, given the choice between a
synth voice are a braille display, for speed and convenience I'd
probably read with a synth, however for atmosphere and flow I would
probably read in braille, (though I'd take an actual human voice
reading over both and it is possible synths might crack the intonation
barrier in the future).
However, the problem is, despite any bennifits I might perceive in
braille, it is dam expensive! my Iphone cost me nothing over what it
would cost with a sighted user, I could similarly use nvda on a pc,
heck Supernova is coming down in price for this reason.
With a braille display you still! need the software to begin with
before you've even bought the itme. Were a braille display 100 usd,
---- maybe even 200I'd considder getting one, but the plane and symple
truth is that 1000 usd is a heck of a lot of money for access to
reading text one line at a time.
We can debate the pros and cons of the process of reading braille
until the cows come home, but the ultimate question is one of basic
economiccs. if something costs lots of money and something which can
provide for most people an acquivolent service costs less, what are
people going to buy?
This is why the technology has to improve and be updated if braille is
going to stick around in any major capacity in the future, indeed
myself I'm fairly certain that unless a workable interface is
developed in the next 5-10 years, in 20 years time nobody newly blind
will be learning braille at all which means in 50 years it will die
out completely.
Beware the Grue!
dark.
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