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iPad Creative: Classical Page Turning Performance
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 The iPad and AirTurn in Performance with Violinist Giora Schmidt
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 07:13 | |
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 When classical violinist Giora Schmidt took on the challenge of performing a major new work for solo violin - a transcription of the nefariously difficult Piano Sonata by Franz Liszt - he was faced with an interesting conundrum. How do you turn 35 pages of music in a 35 minute piece that has no break? Do you have someone sit next to you and stand up intermittently to turn the pages? Do you set up the music “accordion style” with a row of music stands? Both options seemed rather ridiculous from a visual perspective, so Giora did some digging around and came across the AirTurn BT-105, the hands-free page turning wireless pedal system that works with computers and tablets like the iPad.
In this video interview, Giora Schmidt talks about his adoption of the iPad as a digital music reader, and the AirTurn BT-105 as the perfect compliment enabling him to turn pages discreetly and hands free without disturbing his musical performance. Video performance footage was taken from the world premiere performance at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago in September, 2011. Special acknowledgment to composer and pianist Noam Sivan for his work in transcribing the Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor for solo violin.
View Giora Schmidt’s full performance of the Liszt Sonata in B minor below.
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 AirTurn BT-105 hands free page turner compatible with Android 3.0 Tablets
Tuesday, 08 November 2011 08:02 | |
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The AirTurn BT-105 hands free wireless page turner is now compatible with Android Tablets that have Bluetooth keyboard capabilities. The first Android app that takes advantage of the AirTurn BT-105 wireless page turning capabilities is EBookDroid, which can read PDF files, along with a number of other file formats (DjVu, OpenXPS, and CBZ and CBR for comics).
In this video, AirTurn co-founder Hugh Sung gives a brief demonstration of EBookDroid's PDF-reading capabilities running on a Motorola Xoom Tablet, in addition to demonstrating how to connect and pair the Android tablet with the AirTurn BT-105.
For more information on the AirTurn line of hands free wireless page turners, please visit http://airturn.com
You can download EBookDroid for free within the Android App market, or go directly to the developer's website at http://code.google.com/p/ebookdroid/
 The AirTurn BT-105 hands free wireless page turner is now compatible with Android Tablets that have Bluetooth keyboard capabilities. The first Android app that takes advantage of the AirTurn BT-105 wireless page turning capabilities is EBookDroid, an open source document viewer which can read PDF files, along with a number of other file formats (DjVu, OpenXPS, and CBZ and CBR for comics).The BT-105 has been tested with the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Certain Android tablets, such as the Amazon Fire or the Nook from Barnes & Noble, are not compatible with the BT-105 due to the fact that those devices do not have Bluetooth keyboard capabilities. Be sure to check the technical specifications of your Android Tablet for BT-105 compatibility.
You can download EBookDroid for free within the Android App market, or go directly to the developer's website at http://code.google.com/p/ebookdroid/
In the following video, AirTurn co-founder Hugh Sung demonstrates EBookDroid running on a Motorola Xoom tablet, and shows how to wirelessly connect the BT-105 within the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system.
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