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The Fingers That Are No Longer There
At Cremona Musica 2026 they presented a device that starts from paper rolls and, with the help of AI, lets us hear piano sonatas by Mahler and Debussy again. I recognised my own line of work in it: keeping a trace alive without pretending it's the person. And I found myself wondering where restoration ends and invention begins.
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Five Golden Lines
I've just finished the website of a music publisher born in the nineteenth century. The whole project turns on a stave: five thin golden lines holding up the title, the section labels and the catalogue. Here I go through the choices one by one, and explain why everything else was taken out.