Found footage: iPad app turns sheet music pages with the tap of a toe

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but this type of tech has been out there for a while - I saw Harry Connick Jr.'s band at Red Rocks about 6-8 years ago using something similar - that is, a digital sheet music display. My brother is friends with a couple of guys in the band, so I asked him about it - his reply was, yeah, Harry can afford that stuff. Of course, it's no doubt bigger/better/faster now...

why don't they just make one that listens to what you are playing and follows the music?

This sounds like an interesting idea.

Even though Bluetooth has improved over time, I'd still worry about it dropping the connection at an inopportune time. This happens with my i7 MacBook Pro and Bluetooth mouse.

It might be better to interact DIRECTLY with the iPad, rather than add a second layer of hardware/complexity.
Tap the side (like Bump), or a quick swipe (like a iBooks) to change pages. Although there are times when iBooks jumps ahead more than one page.

I could see the iPad's screen size as a bigger problem, not so much for chamber works, but with orchestral and other extremely complex scores, like a Mahler symphony. At 1024 x 768 the pages would simply be too small to see.

Another thing is having the ability to write notes on the score. If you've ever been to an open rehearsal, musicians do this a lot... bowing, tempi, dynamics, etc.. This is probably solvable, like annotating PDFs.

Obviously, this is evolving.

I actually use my iPad for piano music. Trust me, tapping the screen to advance the page is a lot easier than actually turning a page of music...I just scan extra pages if there is a repeat so that I'm always advancing forward and not trying to go back several pages at a time.

The foot pedal seems like overkill...if you can turn a page with your hand, it's a lot easier with the iPad!

rather than turning pages, mic listens and the music is moved line by line according to where the music is, that way the performer does not need to manually interfere with foot or hand and s/he can look ahead at the same time

Does regular paper turn itself with your foot? Nope. So why can't the musician just flick with one hand quickly like they always have? I'm sure a swipe across an iPad screen is still faster than shuffling paper pages.

This is cute, but the RIGHT way to do this would be to have the iPad listen to the piece via a mic and turn the pages appropriately. You could set the "lead" time in the software to suit your pace. That would make this require NO hardware. Even if you have to turn back and forth, that should be settable. I see no reason for a hardware switch at all.

WHY DON'T YOU SAY SOMETHING " NICE " OR " CONSTRUCTIVE ", BEFORE UTTERING NEGATIVE TO DRAG THE PEOPLE DOWN????????????????

I have been scanning music to pdf to try something like this in ibook for future use with an ipad. I'm excited to see this kind of technology for music take off!

Bluetooth seems silly to me. 1) it require power either via a plug or a limited life battery, 2) the hardware cost of the radio, 3) the potential wireless interference when you have dozens of them within a 30 foot space.

Why not just use the accelerometer to respond to tap codes, or at least a special music stand with a dock connector, a wired switch/pedal, and maybe a power source/extra battery.