José Bowen: Beethoven the businessman
José Bowen is an accomplished musician and teacher who explores how technology has shaped the history of music. Full bio
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I thought of for this talk,
I am going to tell you the story,
először elmondom a történetet,
for yourselves.
was that I would tell the story
literally from the beginning,
szó szerint a kezdetektől,
a rock zúzásáig.
csak úgy tovatűnt.
the first 10,000 years just sailed by.
if you want to make music,
instruments, those sorts of things.
más efféléket vett a kezébe.
we start to get a performing class,
az előadóművészek osztálya,
who were really good at pounding rocks.
akik ügyesen ütögették a köveket.
we're still basically doing this.
for the most part,
hangszereken játszottak,
complicated instruments,
in the 18th century,
you had to go to a civic event,
társadalmi eseményekre,
making music live.
social interaction.
a társadalmi kapcsolatokat.
there was no record player.
ki kellett mozdulni otthonról.
you had to get out of the house.
no music in your house.
from the beginning,
together, these two disruptions.
in the 18th century,
that you could mass-produce cheaply.
that's not too expensive,
túl drága hangszerünk,
if the second disruption hadn't happened
olcsón kottát nyomtatni.
how to do cheap music printing.
and the other kind of printing?
és új nyomtatási módszerére.
to distribute sheet music?
of the American Revolution,
the first time this happened,
when, all of a sudden,
vagy Bachot – hallgatni."
I've got to go hear Mozart."
to actually go hear Mozart.
Mozart hangversenyére.
you didn't download Mozart.
nem töltöttük le Mozartot.
at least not easily or cheaply.
legalábbis nem könnyen, nem olcsón.
in fact, there's a new market.
barátunk, Bill Gates.
to actually go to London.
and mass-distributed,
tömegesen lehet terjeszteni,
and everybody else will play my music."
és mások játsszák majd a zenémet."
of music for everybody.
changes the global pyramid,
a globális piramist,
of composers and performers --
és előadókat hoz létre:
hogy a lagzinkon játsszon,
you're starting to see a theme.
for music delivery;
a gramofon, a gépzongora.
player, the gramophone, the player piano.
Rachmaninoff sheet music,
to the concert hall.
of recording device.
you're Doc Ross in Texas,
Doc Ross Texasban,
market, you've got it nailed.
a texasi big band piacot.
there's this new thing called "radio."
az új dolog, a rádió.
and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.
Duke Ellingtont és Benny Goodmant.
has gone global,
and digital files and Garage Band,
a digitális fájlokkal és a GarageBanddel,
all over again.
about these two guys.
beszélhetünk e két fickóról.
are entrepreneurs.
are software designers.
on that piece of hardware over there.
amely azon a hardveren fut.
ha rendelkezésükre áll a papírlapom.
if you have my piece of paper.
does it sound good?
they weren't very useful.
nem nagyon volt használható.
önmagában nem használható.
are software designers.
szoftvertervező.
they also both live at a time
olyan időben élnek,
is changing very quickly.
old enough to remember,
back to Windows whatever,
and your love of Bill Gates,
és Bill Gates imádatát,
software package came out,
új szoftvercsomagok jelentek meg,
a számítógépet.
he had this instrument up on top,
a csúcskészülék.
he doesn't have a piano that can do this.
nincs erre alkalmas zongorája.
do you want to get that piano?
majd a technikát,
have to adopt your technology.
leggyorsabb gépünket kapná,
your fastest, latest computer,
memóriát kihasználná.
all the memory.
Beethoven a new piano.
küld Beethovennek.
he writes a piece that can do that.
a darabot, amiben az benne van.
billentyűzet-mechanikás zongora
Beethoven piano sonata,
legújabb zongoraszonátáját,
and you've got a five-octave piano
újdonsült zongoránkhoz.
latest technology last year.
piano sonata, and what happens?
és vajon mi történik?
the same relationship with his audience
a viszonya a közönségével,
smarter than Bill Gates.
his new Érard piano,
új Érard-zongoráját,
and he and uses all those extra notes.
fölhasználva az új hangokat.
and gives the concert?
he has in Vienna
vannak meg az új hangok.
on the piano. It's great.
nincs efféle zongorája!"
has one of these latest things.
publishes piano sonatas
jelentet meg,
about Beethoven -- basically wrong.
az igazából téves.
for the popular market --
himself, but the piano sonatas --
hanem a zongoraszonátákat,
azokra a billentyűkre,
in some part of Southern Italy,
a házaknál rendelkezésre állnak;
disruptions in music technology?
and they really all worked the same way.
és mind ugyanúgy hatott.
and the piano.
is: it redefines the product.
that you can then take home.
it becomes a digital file.
you've got to go listen to Bach;
el kell mennünk őt meghallgatni,
and we've got composers,
az előadóművészek és a zeneszerzők,
manipulate music like you just saw.
kezelhetik is a zenét, ahogy láttuk.
Count Basie and Benny Goodman,
és Benny Goodmant,
with your local band as much anymore.
felel meg neki a helyi együttes.
listen to Benny Goodman some more."
egy kis Benny Goodmant hallgatni."
that you didn't use to hear.
we take away some social interaction.
a társadalmi kapcsolatainkat is.
play Beethoven at home.
the sheet music, you can go home,
az ajtót, és zongorázhatunk.
that do the same thing.
mennyiségi módosulása.
of social interaction.
experience each time.
ez új személyes élmény.
ahogy nekem tetszik.
I can play it slower.
the experience now.
the marketplace gets bigger.
árult művek száma megnő.
in those music stores goes up.
you can't always tell what you want.
nem mindig tudjuk, mit akarunk.
How do you pick?
that's not on the list:
to write fake Chopin
comforted by the fact,
töltötte volna el, azt hallva:
who buy fake Chopin
you know what he does?
eközben mit tesz?
a zenéjét Itáliában, Franciaországban
France, Germany and England
international copyright,
published on the same day.
szerzemények direkt különböznek,
are different on purpose,
to track who was a pirate.
that Sony thought of.
it makes it more global,
világméretűvé teszi a választékot,
to have a marketing filter.
ad az embereknek lehetőséget.
that's not always direct.
közvetlen módszer a párbeszédre.
sosem történt még velünk."
of disruptions in music technology
efféle változások
is the same as we see
because of these things called books.
mert a terméket könyvnek hívják.
novels without books.
könyvek nélkül is.
in the record business.
only because that was the technology
gas or buying food;
vagy élelmiszerboltokra hasonlítottak:
points all over the place.
pontoknak kellett lenniük.
a different distribution system.
már más a terjesztési rendszer.
about what we're selling.
gondolkoznia, mit árul.
interaction is not going to go away.
szerintem nem fog eltűnni.
here, as we've demonstrated today,
amint ma szemléltettük,
to know each other.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
José Bowen - Professor of musicJosé Bowen is an accomplished musician and teacher who explores how technology has shaped the history of music.
Why you should listen
In his over thirty-year career in music, José Bowen has appeared internationally with artists like Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bobby McFerrin, written over one hundred scholarly articles, and composed a Pulitzer Prize nominated symphony. He began teaching at Stanford University in 1982 before moving on to University of Southampton, Georgetown University, Miami University, and Southern Methodist University -- where he now resides as Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, and Algur H. Meadows Chair and Professor of Music.
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