{"id":2109,"date":"2013-11-02T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2013-10-29T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:21:43","slug":"could-google-glass-replace-stands-and-sheet-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Could Google Glass replace stands and sheet music?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjt8\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/google-glass-macro.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" \/>Cynthia Turner<\/a><\/strong>, a conductor and a professor at Cornell University, is advocating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/products\/glass\/6977\" target=\"_blank\">Google Glass <\/a>as a way of improving the conducting experience. &#8220;<strong>It could be a game changer for anyone who needs two hands to do something,<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\nFor those of you new to Google Glass &#8211;\u00a0it is a head-mounted device with a 640 x 360 display, a 5-megapixel camera capable of recording video and audio. It has <strong>Wi-Fi and Bluetooth<\/strong> built in, 12GB of usable on-board storage, and can be charged over Micro USB. It is also already causing controversy before its launch because of privacy concerns in public places.<br \/>\nCynthia Turner paints an image of musicians <strong>all wearing Google\u2019s headsets<\/strong>, no stands or scores cluttering their chamber, the composer\u2019s point of view broadcast on a screen above them, and intermittent notes of text appearing on screen to explain to patrons what\u2019s happening in a given musical movement.<br \/>\nOur own <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vidagq.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vida Quartet<\/a> are already using iPads<\/strong> with page turning bluetooth units instead of sheet music. Is this the future of music performance?<br \/>\nOf course, many musicians are used to memorising what they play, but i t isn&#8217;t usually the case with an orchestra.<br \/>\nWhat do you think about this deviation from tradition?<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.theverge.com\/2013\/10\/27\/5034818\/cornell-professor-cynthia-turner-mixes-google-glass-and-classical-music\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about it here in The Verge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Turner, a conductor and a professor at Cornell University, is advocating Google Glass as a way of improving the conducting experience. &#8220;It could be a game changer for anyone who needs two hands to do something,&#8221; For those of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}