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Musicians played on the same stage yet 150 kilometres apart
Musicians played on the same stage yet 150 kilometres apart
Our laboratory participated in a unique experiment in which musicians Michael Dessen, Mark Dresser and Myra Melford performed for two audiences at the same time in spite of the fact that the listeners as well as the jazz trio itself were divided between two stages 150 kilometres apart.
The two unique music performances that took place in California on 16 and 17 April were made possible by the UltraGrid technology, in development by a team of researchers of CESNET, the association of Czech universities and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The unusual cultural event was a part of TeleMotions: A Networked Intermedia Concert, made possible by the University of California Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). In professional terms, this was a very demanding operation: achieving the effect of a normal concert without all the musicians being present on the same stage is not an easy task, because hearing is much more sensitive to delay and all sorts of failures than eyesight. Yet the experiment was a success, pleasing the musicians, the audiences and the network specialists.
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