Posted by timothy on Saturday February 14, @10:03AM
from the sorry-fellas dept.
Albanach writes "The Scotsman newspaper is reporting that despite opposition from the Musician's Union, Sir Cameron Mackintosh will proceed with his plan to replace one half of the musicians in his musical Les Miserables with a computer synthesiser. The Times claims that using Sinfonia will allow the show, the third longest running musical in history, to replace 11 musicians saving 5,000 GBP ($9,450 US) per week. Sinfonia consisits of 2 PCs, one master and one backup, controlled by an trained operator using a musical keyboard."

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things that look like wood, or flowers, or living things, produced by machines but sould like human, poetry... I wonder, how long will it take before we as a culture are desensitized to such things, so that the real life things don't work for us anymore either. One generation? two? Probably depends on where you live... city centre, some shack in Montanna, or high up in a redwood saving the tree. Time to watch Blade Runner again: "A real snake? huh! Do you think I'd be working here if I could aford a real snake?"