Here are the two previous of his "virtual choir" pieces:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3rRaL-Czxw
    and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhWDCw3Mng

I find the implications of this work wonderfully confuzzling (confounding, confusing?):

I find Eric himself an irritating boor (perhaps it takes one to know one), not unlike Michael Flatley (aka "the Lord of Dance"). Perhaps all songwriter/conductors have this self-centered style? Perhaps it comes with the territory (of performance art requiring many individuals, but one centerpiece)?

I'd find it (yet) more interesting if there wasn't $100,000 worth of post-production required to make the piece what it is. I'm sure there are examples which are more "self-organizing" on the net? As with the earlier thread on letting humans do what they do best, not trying to automate everything, maybe I'm wrong.

Or maybe it is best to do it *with* humans (more) in the loop and slowly find ways to emulate the things humans do by rote more efficiently by machine, in the process *maybe* abstracting just what it is they are doing?

Sigh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyLX2cke-Lw

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net <mailto:o...@backspaces.net>> wrote:

    Here's Eric discussing how its done.

    On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Owen Densmore
    <o...@backspaces.net <mailto:o...@backspaces.net>> wrote:

        This somehow makes it all worth while:
        http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2085483835/virtual-choir-4-bliss


        I'm starting to get hooked on social media, I came across this
        on my FB account, from the brother of my sister-in-law.
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs
        .. shiver!

        Granovetter was right about "the strength of weak ties", sorta
        started the whole "computational social sciences gig":
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Granovetter

           -- Owen





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