{"id":212,"date":"2009-03-12T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=212"},"modified":"2009-03-12T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:24:40","slug":"on_the_internet_nobody_knows_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/03\/on_the_internet_nobody_knows_y\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Financial Times<\/i><\/a> via You’ve Cott Mail<\/i><\/a>, more good stuff from our European friends:

<\/i><\/p>\n

The latest, and perhaps most ambitious, innovation in the world of
\nclassical music is that of the digital concert hall. Last year
\nMonteVerdi.tv established a virtual forum for enthusiasts and
\nmusicologists, offering downloads and a live monthly broadcast, but the
\nmost comprehensive project so far was launched by the Berlin
\nPhilharmonic Orchestra this January with sponsorship from Deutsche
\nBank. Under the tagline “Any Place, Any Time” their website offers live
\nconcert streaming for \u20ac9.90 per performance, or a season ticket and
\nunlimited archive access for \u20ac89. So far the project has proved popular
\n– around 2,500 people tuned into the first concert and more than 10,000
\nhave now registered – but the jury is still out as to whether it marks
\nthe further democratisation of classical music or an added threat to
\nits future.<\/p>\n

The Berlin Philharmonic already had quite a reputation for trailblazing
\n– in 1980 it became the first orchestra to produce a classical CD,
\nunder conductor Herbert von Karajan – and its current artistic director
\nand chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, is a technophile. But as Rattle
\nhimself explained in a recent press release, the aim was not simply to
\npioneer a new concert-going experience but also vastly to increase the
\npublic’s access to the orchestra, and to music in general: “We’ve been
\nthinking over these last years: how will people want to receive art in
\ntheir own houses? And we more and more thought that it was people just
\nexpecting [it] to be there – like water.”<\/p>\n

…Furthermore, there are no rustles and snuffles from neighbours, and
\nthere’s no need to dress up (in fact, there’s a subversive pleasure to
\nbe had from attending a concert in your pyjamas). In short, you can be
\nthoroughly anti-social, and therein lies the problem: will people still
\nsupport their local symphony orchestra if they can watch the Berlin
\nPhilharmonic in their own sitting-room? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to check out the digital concert hall. The site includes a stream test where users can check to make sure they are satisfied with the video and audio quality before buying a ticket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Financial Times via You’ve Cott Mail, more good stuff from our European friends: The latest, and perhaps most ambitious, innovation in the world of classical music is that of the digital concert hall. Last year MonteVerdi.tv established a virtual forum for enthusiasts and musicologists, offering downloads and a live monthly broadcast, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}