Mittwoch aus Licht

[Bryn]

Is anyone else here planning on watching/listening to the free web stream at http://boc.eventitdept.com/ ?

If so, have you noticed that while the advertised start time is 4pm, the countdown clock at that URL suggests that the web stream will not start until 5pm? I have emailed B'ham Opera about this divergence but have yet to receive a reply.

Ah well, it was the countdown clock that was wrong. Probably set to GMT. Live steam now started.

[heliocentric]

Live steam now started.

It's helicopters not trains, Bryn.

[Bryn]

It's helicopters not trains, Bryn.

Must be all these sibilants.

[Bryn]

I do hope some sort of audio-visual record of this production, even just something based on the current live stream, will be made available on a more permanent basis, whether on DVD, Blu-ray or via download. Unlike last night live Helicopter Quartet, tonight's stream is not in easily captured Flash format, and I have not got round to installing Total Recorder Video capture on this laptop.

[teamsaint]

would have thought that this would have been perfect for a cinema big screen type airing, at least in a few major cities...salisbury for example !!

[heliocentric]

would have thought that this would have been perfect for a cinema big screen type airing, at least in a few major cities...

... except that one of the most striking and memorable things about it was being enveloped by the events and the sound - for example in the Welt-Parlament scene for a cappella voices (40 or so in number, many of whom had solo duties including the singing conductor), the vocalists surrounded the audience on umpire's chairs apart from being amplified over a multichannel sound system, and in the Orchester-Finalisten eleven instrumentalists were on chairs or platforms suspended from the ceiling at various heights and being hoisted up and down, again amplified and playing against electronic music composed for eight speakers in a cube formation. (In both of these scenes the audience could sit or lie on mats on the floor.) You couldn't reproduce anything like this experience on a screen, and Stockhausen would have claimed (rightly, I reckon) that hearing the "spatial composition" of the music was essential to appreciating it in full.

I'm sure all of the performances would have been sold out. So much for abstruse and obscure modern music.

[teamsaint]

No doubt Heliocentric is right...but if people enjoyed the stream....just a thought, anyway .

[Bryn]

No doubt Heliocentric is right...but if people enjoyed the stream....just a thought, anyway .

Although you will not get upper and lower quadraphonics from a DVD or Blu-ray, they could at least offer some sort of surround.

[Serial_Apologist]

Although you will not get upper and lower quadraphonics from a DVD or Blu-ray, they could at least offer some sort of surround.

I've found the best way to listen to Stockhausen, (or any good electroacustic music, for that matter), (apart from through good headphones), is to place the speakers on either side of oneself. Opposite corners of a more-or-less square room worked best for me.