Valuable name performance of Montreux · Jazz · Festival is digital archive and online viewing is possible

It marks the 50th anniversary in 2016Montreux · Jazz · FestivalHas also been counted in the "Three major jazz festivals in the world", and the famous musicians are appearing in the past. All the performances played at Montreux were recorded and recorded, but the valuable record was released online with the digital archive promoted in cooperation with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

Montreux Jazz
http://www.montreuxjazz.com/

The Montreux Jazz Festival (MJF) to be held on the banks of Lake Lemann, Switzerland lined up with "Newport Jazz Festival" and "Montaral Jazz Festival"Three major jazz festivals in the worldIt is counted as one of the festivals where famous musicians perform for 50 years since the first holding in 1967. We are gaining worldwide reputation as a festival. The history of Montreux, which encompasses various genres ranging from jazz as well as rock and heavy metal, can be said to reflect the history of modern music as it is, and it can be said that it is a very meaningful project to be touched by past performances.

Montreux Jazz Festival


And it was Mr. Claude Nobs who was the creator of the festival that kept the original video / recording material. Mr. Nobs tended to decline the festival Montreux's tendencyTown developmentIt is a person who planned as, now a person who raised up to a festival named in the world. Mr. Nobs is leaving this world in 2013, but the project to digitize the "property" left by Mr. Nobs by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne has been advanced.

ByErling Mandelmann

When you visit the site, the introduction movie is displayed at the top of the page as follows.


That movie is kore. At the time of article creation, it was in a heavy state whether the access is concentrated or not, so please be careful when playing.


When you play the movie, the digest video that reflects the history of the past has been played ......


The MJF logo was displayed. If you look closely, this logo is a collage that combines designs of past posters ... ...


When putting a mouse on the logo, the poster of the year and the year was displayed.


And clicking further, the performer's digest video of that year will be played.


It is also possible to search by artist name. When you move the mouse to the upper left of the screen on the site, the menu screen is displayed like this and items such as "Search" "Playlists" "Concert Database" are displayed. Click "Search" to narrow down by artist name ... ...


When you enter artist name and search on the next screen, items such as artist information, performance movie, image gallery, sound file, etc. are displayed.


When I clicked on the movie, I was able to watch the performance. However, since traffic is concentrated or data transfer is often slow,4K Video DownloaderIt is better to download it locally and enjoy it carefully afterwards.


The number of movies and pictures that can be viewed varies for each artist. Icons and numbers are displayed next to their names, so there is no need to worry about overlooking the archive data of your favorite artists.


In 'Playlists' you can also enjoy playlists by theme such as female vocals, guitarists, legendary bands.


The screen under play is like this. However, as playback is still heavy, it may be a little unreasonable to enjoy playing like YouTube.


"Concert Database" allows you to see the order of performance when each artist appeared side by side. Because it can search even if it seems to be a guest participation, it became a precious database for fans.


This archiving project has been advanced by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) as mentioned above. It is a magnificent project of five years that Mr. Nobs keep archives of 4000 pairs of artists · 5000 hours of video / audio and 80,000 photographs in a form that can be conveyed to future generations.

The treasured Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online
http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-treasured-montreux-jazz-festival-archive-is-no/

There are tremendous things that the recording medium is over 10,000 tapes in 18 different formats. EPFL has cleaned all of these media, reproduced and digitized, converted into meta data and tags added, and then saved it as a database. All of the digital data is kept uncompressed,LTOIn addition to recording it on 2100 standard magnetic tapes, it seems that it has a structure to distribute on the Internet using three archive servers with capacity of 4.7 PB (petabyte). Of course, it seems that data redundancy is also done.


In the following movies, Mr. Nobsu before life can also appear and you can see the significance of the archive and the state of digitization. While the movie shows a few performance scenes such as Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Miles Davis and so on, this is a must-see.

Audemars Piguet - Press Conference MONTREUX SOUNDS DIGITAL Project - YouTube