Tonight’s focus is technology – which is perhaps a bit surprising given that I have been sharing music videos!<\/p>\n
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This was partly triggered by listening to an “interesting” \ud83d\ude31 rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at the CPAC conference in Orlando over the weekend. Not surprisingly this has resulted in a number of YouTube “tributes” – but one that caught my ear was done by a music producer who, to quote his own video title, “heroically fixed botched anthem”.<\/p>\n
If you are sceptical or unfamiliar with what can be done using technology to ‘improve’ performances I suggest you listen to both the original and the ‘fixed’ version. Links in the comments below.<\/p>\n
It got me thinking about who the technology has changed in my lifetime and I was going to share some “Switched on Bach” – however that seems to be absolutely banned online for copyright reasons – so, instead here is a BBC interview where the technology is explained. There will then be a second, bonus, post tonight illustrating what can be done now (using a rather smaller bit of kit!!!)<\/p>\n