Upper Intermediate Unit 5 DVD Script

DG = Dave Gorman DH = Dan Haythorn L = Laurie S = Stuart

V = Voice
DG: Hello, and welcome to Genius: a show all about you and your ideas. If
you think you might be a genius, we can give you the chance to prove
it: all you have to do is email us with your cleverest notion. We invite
the people with the most potential to join us, and it’s here that we work
out once and for all who really is a genius. OK, Stuart, let’s see what
you make of our final idea tonight. It comes from Dan Haythorn from
North West London.
DH: Dear Genius, imagine hooking a piano keyboard up to a choir, so that
each key caused a different chorister to sing that note. Someone
playing the keyboard would then be essentially playing a choir. I’ve
never seen this done before, and I would really like to.
DG: Would this, this choir … a person in the choir, a chorister, is that note.
That’s what they represent.
DH: Yeah, well, each note would, um, be assigned to a different chorister,
so someone would be middle C, someone would be C sharp, etc., the
length and breadth of the keyboard. And, you press that key—it would
prompt them to sing that note.
DG: But it’s not something an ordinary musician could ever own?
DH: No, you couldn’t have it at home, really, no, not unless … not unless
you happen to live with a choir of some sort.
DG: We obviously, we thought about doing it, in the studio and, and Thorin,
our prop man, made an artist’s impression of, of how he imagined it
would look. He’s imagining wires with lights from each key, to the choir,
and we thought it was worthy of investigation so we have had a piano
rigged up to lots of little candle lights. So if … if we can bring that in first
of all …

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 Upper Intermediate Unit 5 DVD Script
Now just in case anyone thinks that this is just like a rehearsed thing
and that this machine doesn’t work, I think we’re the perfect people to
prove that this is … this is real. OK, you can see we’ve got the white
keys, the black keys that correlate precisely with the white keys and the
black keys on this piano. You don’t mind if we do this, do you Laurie?
L: Ah, no.
DG: OK. After all, we built it, I think we should. Just hit anything you like at
random, a kind of … What has he ever done to you? And, well I think
that you should maybe give it a go Laurie … you’re, you’re the man
who knows.
L: Mm, yeah. Any particular style?
DG: I think we should go classical.
L: Something classical, OK. … Fantastic!
DG: Now apart from making Dan’s dream come true, is this idea—Dan
Haythorn and his piano choir—genius or not?
S: I think it’s only begun to realize its potential. It’s genius.

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