This week Stephen and Gannon discuss playing in a pit orchestra for musicals.  They talk about the different challenges involved with playing in a pit and give some general advice.  

This podcast was recorded at Waverly's Coffee Shop in Eastland, TX.  There is a variation in sound quality, please excuse.

This week we have an interview with Gregory Dell'Era from the company Weezic which is based in Paris, France.  Gregory is a Bassonist and recorder player with both music and engineering degrees.  He is one of the founders of Weezic.

Weezic is a platform for augmented sheet music.  This platform plays accompaniments with the performer and gives instant assessment.  Weezic has both a web based application and an iPad app. 

This week we are joined by professor, musician, and author David Rothenberg.  Rothenberg studies animal and nature music and has written many books, created multiple CD's, and traveled the world both studying and performing with animals.  In this episode we talk about why animal music is important, how to make music with animals, and why/if this can really be called music.  David Rothenberg currently works at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Videos featuring David Rothenberg (For Videos of Animals Reacting to Music visit this Blog Post)

We had the pleasure of visiting with Joe Berkovitz from Noteflight, the web based music notation program.  Noteflight is a powerful, cross platform solution for music notation. Users including people distributing parts to musicians digitally, teaching music theory, and composers looking for a powerful affordable tool set.  Noteflight has free entry level accounts, so go try it now!

Mr. Berkovitz is a composer, pianist, and software engineer with 30 years of development experience.

That Old Stinkface (included in podcast)
Beethoven: An Die Ferne Geliebte:

Be-Bop Cliches
Figured Bass Example