I was just wondering about any new technological advances that I've learned about recently when I remembered sitting in choir last year and my choir director was speaking of a similar interest. She had wondered how choirs were being 'modernized.' She showed us this amazing video of Eric Whitacre and his creation of the virtual choir through a series of emails and youtube auditions.
Eric Whitacre picked soloists, arranged the choir, and had all of their? videos edited to fit together to create a choir of 2,000 people who had never even met before. This convergence of technology shows the direction that our technology is really heading in. Who knows? Maybe in the next decade or so, someone will set up an online show? This thought almost seems impossible now but what if you had told someone 50 years ago that people would be performing in a massive choir with other people they had never even seen before?
The convergence of technology is the cause of technology's rapid evolution. The collaboration that this provides puts new ideas inside the minds of the technological geniuses of today and they try to create their ideas. This innovation makes way for performances that we can't even imagine! In fact, with the constant convergence of technology, it seems as though live performance as we know it is endangered. Are we heading into a future of strictly technological performances?
This is one of the most intriguing videos that I have ever seen. It is almost unbelievable how much technology went into this video. I am so impressed, and I would almost go to the point of saying speechless by this. The virtual choir sounds so much better than most of the actual choirs that I have seen in person. They sound beautiful together. I'm highly fascinated at all of the work that went into this. You have blown me away with this finding Antonio, nice work!
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