22 October 2016, 2pm - 4pm

Recital Room, West Rd Concert Hall, 11 West Rd, CB3 9DP

An event of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

Chopin's ceaseless revisions resulted in many discrete versions of his music. Professor John Rink describes a dynamic digital resource allowing pianists to vary their performances by drawing from the multiple versions.

Since its inception in 2003, the Online Chopin Variorum Edition has evolved into a resource of c.6,000 digital images of manuscripts and editions of the music of Fryderyk Chopin, accompanied by extensive scholarly material. OCVE constitutes a virtual edition: users compare the sources to construct a dynamic understanding of their interrelationships and the music’s creative history. The project is currently designing a new digital platform that will give performers the power to create unique versions of Chopin’s works on each performance occasion. This talk describes the work to date as well as OCVE’s aspirations for music’s digital future.

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