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Owen Densmore

Fwd: Virtual Choir 4: Bliss by Eric Whitacre — Kickstarter

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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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Owen Densmore

Re: Virtual Choir 4: Bliss by Eric Whitacre — Kickstarter

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Here's Eric discussing how its done.

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> 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

Nick Thompson

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Owen. Thanks for sending this around. It is absolutely stunning. Talk about a crowd in the cloud. Nick

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 9:56 PM
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Subject: [FRIAM] Fwd: Virtual Choir 4: Bliss by Eric Whitacre — Kickstarter

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

Owen Densmore

Re: Virtual Choir 4: Bliss by Eric Whitacre — Kickstarter

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

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Here's Eric discussing how its done.

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> 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

Steve Smith

Re: Virtual Choir 4: Bliss by Eric Whitacre — Kickstarter

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 <[hidden email]> wrote:

Here's Eric discussing how its done.

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> 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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Owen Densmore

Re: Virtual Choir 4: Bliss by Eric Whitacre — Kickstarter

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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 <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> wrote:

Here's Eric discussing how its done.

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> 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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