| Rachel O'Dwyer on Wed, 29 May 2019 14:47:34 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Eric Whitacre, Virtual Choir |
You might be interested in the work of people at SARC in Queens Belfast. They did a lot of work on networked performance, I don’t know if they still do. Some of the networks they used were high latency and they explored latency as a performance platform to interesting effect Sent from my iPhone > On 29 May 2019, at 13:18, John Preston <wcerfgba@riseup.net> 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 > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: