Thanks Rachel, Ted and Iain, it's great to learn about all these
connections. :)
I didn't mean anything too fancy by low-latency, just trying to get the
performance, and the performers hearing each other and communicating, as
close to a real-time as if they were stood in the same room. I thought
radio would be a natural medium for this: get everyone tuned in to the
same frequency at the same time, use a shortwave band [1] or something
with wide propagation. This would obviously lose a lot of clarity and
detail but I don't know how well you could orchestrate a live
performance over the Internet with e.g. Skype. Even latency of 20ms can
make musical collaboration difficult, so maybe radio would be more
effective for this.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARC_bands
John
On 2019-05-29 15:05, Iain Boal wrote:
> Thanks for the heads-up on this experiment, John. It puts me in mind of the
> indelible line in Arlene Hutton's fine play, _As It is in Heaven_, about
> Shaker golden age hierarchs - in this case, a couple of eldresses - coping
> with an outbreak of 'gifting' visions among the recent novices: ~ "No
> harmony, girls - you must sing in unison, otherwise we might as well be
> Baptists."
>
> Could you elaborate on the category 'low-latency' technics? It's new to me,
> at least.
>
> Indietro!
>
> Iain
> -----------------------
>
> On 29 May 2019, at 08:18, John Preston <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings all,
>
> The YouTube algorithm gave me a TED talk by Eric Whitacre [1] sharing
> his work conducting 'virtual choirs' where people recorded their parts
> separately and uploaded them to YouTube. The individual performances
> were then rendered together to create the final 'performance'. The
> project is on-going [2].
>
> I thought this was a nice example of a work of a traditional medium
> being transformed through network technology. Particularly the
> asynchronous nature of the process is very different from how a
> physically co-located choir would operate, and the result is not a
> conventional performance but a recording (hence my previous quote
> marks).
>
> I'd like to see a live performance by such a physically distributed
> choir using low-latency technology.
>
> John
>
> [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NENlXsW4pM
> [2]: https://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir
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