About Us
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Zenph® Studios is a software company that specializes in the algorithms and
processes for understanding - and re-creating - precisely how musicians perform.
Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, a team of software engineers,
researchers, and professional musicians has successfully accomplished what has
been dreamed for years. Thousands have thrilled to re-performances®
by famed musicians staged in large halls. From the data that describe these note-perfect
re-performances, we make clear, modern recordings. Great-sounding new recordings
can be tailored for any acoustic, for example, for the latest in surround sound
or headphone listening.
Zenph's first commercial offering is creating the data behind the music, working
with the record labels to make great-sounding recordings of performances you
love. Sony Masterwork's amazing new recordings of Glenn Gould's playing of his
famed 1955 Goldberg Variations afresh in Toronto's
Glenn Gould Studio are now available worldwide. (And we say "recordings" in
plural, since the one disc contains versions from three different perspectives.)
Sony's album of Art Tatum's Piano Starts Here
re-performance was released in June 2008, with
Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff and violinst Joshua Bell's
At Home with Friends released in 2009.
The work we’re doing will change every aspect of music production in the
coming years. Instead of working the way Edison did in the 1800’s –
dealing with sound waves recorded in the air – we can now use the power of
computer engineering to replicate exactingly what musicians do as they play. Re-performances
can be played and recorded again any time, on different instruments, in any
venue, in front of any microphones. We’re separating musicians’
performances from their original recording medium, bringing to music the power
that word processing has brought to writing.