His recent TED included remote singers via Skype with the composition embracing the 1sec latency, see his home page: http://ericwhitacre.com/blog/the-ted-live-virtual-choir
I dunno, I find it a really compelling idea, regardless of Eric being so easy to find questionable. Hey, what if he's actually a nice guy! I find folks of that ilk often hard to take, mainly not "self" center but "art" or "project" centered. What I'd love to see is him enabling a world wide Taize celebration. -- Owen On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > 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>wrote: > >> Here's Eric discussing how its done. >> >> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Owen Densmore <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 >>> >>> >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
