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You’re at home playing your violin and imagining the day when you’ll grace the stage of the world’s greatest orchestras. Wouldn’t it be nice to have symphonic accompaniment as you nurture those Itzhak Perlman dreams? A number of apps provide musical backup, but Cadenza out of Harvard goes a step further, automatically synching a recording of a full live orchestra to your style and tempo in real time.
“As you begin playing your instrument, the app listens to each note you play and the rhythm and speed in which you play them, calculating and recalibrating a prediction model for when you will play the next note,” the Cadenza site explains. “These meticulous adjustments happen every millisecond.”
Slow down in the first movement for a moody beginning, for example, or speed up for an exhilarating finish. Your full symphony orchestra will follow your lead.
The app emerged from Sonation, a music startup based at the Harvard innovation lab. The software is already available for the Mac with a library of 50 classical works from composers suc… [Read more]
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