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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I've been to a couple of virtual concerts in the past year. A cousin of mine is a singer with the Blacksburg Master Chorale in Blacksburg, Virginia, and she alerted me to them in a text. It was an interesting experience. Normally when people say the singers phoned in their performance, it's a bad thing, but they wanted to play it safe with the pandemic still reading, so that's literally what they did. I'm assuming they used Zoom or some similar technology to coordinate the results so seamlessly. The concerts were wonderful.
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I help run SF cons, and they have had to go virtual. Zoom is the technology of choice for presenting programming.
A popular item at SF cons is Filking. Folks play and sing till all hours, generally performing material written by them with an SF/F theme. Some of them are very good indeed. A friend of mine is a Filker who tends to run that part of an SF con. The filkers have been doing this for a while, and can do good solo performances.
What they
can't do is play
together. Synchronizing the different performers into a seamless whole isn't possible. (Technically, the issue isn't latency, it's jitter.) There's at least one software package that tries to address the issue, but it requires a high bandwidth broadband link for all parties, and is
very fussy about the hardware the individual performers have and its setup. This is very much a work in progress.
OTOH, rock musician Peter Frampton has videos up on YouTube of performances with his band, and they are all playing from home. My impression is their contributions get sent to a server where a mixing engineer can combine the streams and sync everything, and that is what gets sent to YouTube. Not quite real time, but effective. Something lake that may have been in the process for that choral work you mentioned.
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Dennis