<![CDATA[Idolator: adventures in stenography]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Idolator: adventures in stenography]]> http://idolator.com/tag/adventures in stenography http://idolator.com/tag/adventures in stenography <![CDATA[Jon Pareles: Making The Rest Of Us Look Bad]]> The guy at the gig hunched over his notepad, furtively taking down his impressions on the show for his blog post later on that night, has become as depressingly common a sight as the raised cellphone camera. (Y'all need to work on your recall.) But New York Times critic Jon Pareles has taken show notes one step further.



At last night's Union Pool showcase during the CMJ music festival in New York, we noticed a man scoring music on a staff as Dragons of Zynth finished their set. When asked what he was up to, he said he was notating the bassline of the song to find out later which track it was (he had the whole Dragons of Zynth album on a Sandisk Sansa e200 portable audio player).

Most of the time I'm lucky if my notes get more detailed than "the third one with the guitar that sounded like a duck," "what an ugly jacket," or "I'm hungry," and this guy's notating music in real time. Anyone who bitches about not being able to find a WiFi hot spot or from here on out is officially fired from music criticism.

Snapshot: The NY Times Pop Music Reviewer's Live Music Notation [Listening Post]

]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/adventures-in-stenography/jon-pareles-making-the-rest-of-us-look-bad-312457.php http://idolator.com/tunes/adventures-in-stenography/jon-pareles-making-the-rest-of-us-look-bad-312457.php Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:10:03 EDT jharv http://idolator.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=312457&view=rss&microfeed=true