{"id":1328,"date":"2009-07-24T06:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/07\/concert_companionon_the_cheap\/"},"modified":"2009-07-24T06:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:47:35","slug":"concert_companionon_the_cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/concert_companionon_the_cheap.php","title":{"rendered":"Concert Companion&#8230;on the cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, there was a lot of effort and a good amount of buzz around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/29\/arts\/concertgoers-multitasking-to-stravinsky.html\">Concert Companion<\/a>, a handheld device designed to enhance and inform the live symphony experience with text and multimedia. As patrons listened in the concert hall, the CoCo (as it was called) would stream synchronized program notes, images, and even video of the conductor. <\/p>\n<p>The results of the testing were very positive, with many participants claiming the realtime insights helped them enjoy and understand the music they were hearing in a new and different way. The challenge for the initiative was the cost &#8212; investing in custom devices and proprietary mediacasting technology, curating content to be delivered (as I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/just-dont-start-playing-solita.php\">in a 2004 post<\/a> on the subject).<\/p>\n<p>Now, the National Symphony (among others) is attempting <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/entertainment\/classicalmusic\/2009\/07\/national_symphony_to_introduce.html\">a poor man&#8217;s version of the Concert Companion<\/a>, where they use an existing mediacasting system (Twitter) and patrons bring their own devices (mobile phones and the like). The result is essentially free (not counting the time and energy it still takes to write the Twitter program notes). But the impact may be as enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>Worth watching.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, there was a lot of effort and a good amount of buzz around the Concert Companion, a handheld device designed to enhance and inform the live symphony experience with text and multimedia. As patrons listened in the concert hall, the CoCo (as it was called) would stream synchronized program notes, images, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}