한국인의 Youtube Symphony Orchestra 지원은?
전세계의 연주자들이 자신의 연주 비디오를 유튜브에 올리면 인터넷 투표를 통해 최종 연주자를 선정.
선정된 연주자들로 구성된 유튜브 교향악단이 뉴욕의 카네기 홀에 모여서 연주회를 가진다는 것.
지휘자는 현재 샌프란시스코 시향의 상임 지휘자가 Michael Tilson Thomas가 지휘하며, 연주 곡목은 최근 이름이 난 중국 작곡가 Tan Dun (와호 장룡의 작곡가로 수상한 바 있으며, 베이징 올림픽 개막식 음악도 아마 이 사람이 감독했는 듯...)이 작곡하기로 했다고 .
인터넷 제국 구글 답게 모든 과정이 인터넷을 통해 이루어지는 감동의 드라마를 연출할 듯...
타임즈지의 기사에는 이미 수많은 각 국 출신의 선발자들의 다양한 사연이 소개되고 있다.
구글이 이 모든 프로젝트 비용을 지불하며, 선발된 사람들은 뉴욕행 항공권을 받게된다.
자기 업적을 위해 시향을 만든 시장과 여기저기서 끌어모은 단원들의 좌충우돌식 오케스트라 이끌어가는 이야기를 풀어낸 우리나라의 '베토벤 바이러스'가 보여준 한국적 현실과 차이랄까...
YTSO 사이트를 보다가 웹브라우저 국가설정이 한국으로 된 경우 제일 하단에 씁쓸한 코미디를 볼 수 있다.
한승주 국무총리가 한국의 YTSO 지원자를 격려하는 동영상을 올렸는데,
이번 구글의 실명화 거부로 인해 한국의 지원자는 한국 국적으로는 자신의 연주를 올릴 수가 없다.
국무총리 입으로는 자국민의 지원을 격려하고, 정작 지원자는 국적을 포기해야만 지원할 수 있는 코미디라니...
이러다 한국인이 YTSO 단원으로 뽑히고, 뉴욕으로 가게되면 다른 국적으로 신청했다고 출국금지 시키는 건 아닐지. 아니면 구글에서 국적표기가 틀렸다고 무효처리하는 사태가 생기진 않을지.
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http://www.youtube.com/Symphony
Play your part in music history.
We called for professionals and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra by submitting a video performance of a new piece written for the occasion by the renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun.
Finalists are selected by a judging panel comprised of the world's most renowned orchestras. Vote for your favorite instrumentalists on YouTube from February 14-22.
Winners are announced on March 2nd and will be invited to travel to New York in April 2009, to participate in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra summit, and play at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
All the Tan Dun submissions will be compiled into a mashup video which will be premiered on this channel on April 15th.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1890393,00.html
Hannah Pauline Tarley, a ponytailed 17-year-old violinist, smiles for the camera. Then she plays the opening notes of an excerpt from Brahms' Symphony No. 4 as she sways in a room decorated with stickers and posters of the Beatles and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Tarley filmed herself in her bedroom in Cupertino, Calif., using a computer placed atop several volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. She is one of approximately 3,000 professional and amateur classical musicians in countries from Bermuda to Azerbaijan who auditioned by video in December and January for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. This groundbreaking ensemble, the first to screen members entirely online, will debut on April 15 at New York City's Carnegie Hall in a concert conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
The project is the brainchild of Google, which hopes to both foster online classical-music communities and cement YouTube's reputation as a repository for quality content. After dreaming up the idea in late 2007, Google approached prominent musicians and ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra and Tilson Thomas, a new-media pioneer in his work with the San Francisco and New World Symphonies.
"Classical music is often perceived as something which is traditionalist and perhaps even a little élitist," says Ed Sanders, a YouTube marketing manager. But the industry response, he says, was overwhelmingly positive. Google is paying all costs--a sum Sanders wouldn't disclose--including visa and travel expenses for the musicians, who come from 30 countries.
Musicians submitted videos of themselves performing repertory staples as well as a new work composed for the occasion: the Internet Symphony No. 1 "Eroica" by Tan Dun, who wrote the sound track for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The clips were evaluated by members of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin and New York Philharmonics, among other ensembles, who selected 200 finalists. Those videos were posted on the YouTube Symphony Orchestra channel in February. YouTube users then voted for their favorites, American Idol--style--and in Idol-like droves. Since the launch of YouTube.com/Symphony in December 2008, organizers say, the site has received more than 14 million views.
The Making of a Virtual Orchestra
Tilson Thomas, who made the final selection for the April 15 concert, says the project is one way to "widen everyone's conception of what classical music is," a point he'll underscore with an eclectic program including works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Villa-Lobos, John Cage, Tan Dun and the DJ-composer Mason Bates. He hopes the project will demonstrate how important the genre is to people of different ages, nationalities, backgrounds and professions--and that performers will learn how to use the Internet and YouTube to better market themselves, just as budding writers can blog to gain publicity.
Eric Moe, a 35-year-old trumpeter from Spokane, Wash., who made the final cut, says it's essential for musicians to be techno-savvy. Moe, who filmed his audition in a church, experimented with several laptops and Web cameras before creating a video he was happy with. He compares the YouTube audition process to online dating: you don't know if you're actually going to meet the person or what he or she is really like.
The winners have had a chance to get to know each other--virtually, that is. In addition to their audition, each winner posted an introductory video. Dressed in a kimono, Maki Takafuji, who lives in Kyoto, Japan, plays a brief marimba solo and talks about her music education. Jim Moffat, a horn player who works in technology marketing in the U.K., introduces himself with London Bridge in the background. Nina Perlove, a flutist from Cincinnati, Ohio, begins her video aspirationally, by playing the song "New York, New York." David France, a violinist who teaches at the Bermuda School of Music, greets viewers from a sandy beach.
Rachel Hsieh, a 24-year-old cellist studying for a master's at the Peabody Conservatory, filmed her audition in her Baltimore apartment. She sees the YouTube Symphony as a way to reach audiences beyond music aficionados: "A lot of people are exposed to YouTube, and they go on there for fun. It's a really easy way for them to just click on something and see something new."
YouTube's Invisible Beethovens
The YouTube musicians will have their horizons widened too. They'll perform with prominent soloists, including violinist Gil Shaham. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Lang Lang will make a video appearance. The musicians will rehearse the program during a classical-music summit at Carnegie Hall from April 12 through 15. They've already had a chance to study the repertory in online master classes hosted by professionals like Maxine Kwok-Adams, a violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra, who offers bowing tips for the Tan Dun piece.
All the video submissions of that work (which received rave reviews from participants) will be compiled into a mash-up video to be shown on April 15, to coincide with the concert. And audience members will be permitted to videotape the Carnegie event. (Look for clips--where else?--on YouTube.) In an interview on the YouTube Symphony site, Tan enthuses about the possibilities offered by the Internet. "There are oh-so-many invisible Beethovens behind YouTube," he says.
For Moe, who believes that "orchestras need to figure out how to be relevant and reach new audiences," the most fascinating aspect of the YouTube orchestra is its vision of community. "The purpose of music and maybe even the purpose of life is to connect with people and create," he says. Whether that will work musically is anyone's guess. But it is undoubtedly, as Moe puts it, a "really fun experiment." And for the performers, there's not much to lose. "I'm so glad someone is footing the bill!" Moe says.
For other participants, there are benefits beyond the chance to expand the reach of classical music. When Hannah Tarley, the California teenager, asked to get her ears pierced about seven years ago, her mother told her she'd be allowed to do so only if she performed at Carnegie Hall. It used to be that the way to get to Carnegie Hall was to practice, but the world is a little different now. She practiced--and then she uploaded her video--and then she got there.
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