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He took a jar full of beans, and asked different participants to guess how many beans were in the jar. Let's go back to a recent experiment conducted in 2011 by mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy as part of his television programme on BBC Four. There are plenty of examples to illustrate the crowd wisdom. Thus, I've tried to glean insights from the psychology of the crowds in an attempt to understand such innovative approach. Eventually, the artist was more likely to put his trust on this wisdom in order to handle a very narrow margin for asynchronicity glitches. Ultimately, the success was achieved and the question is how this was made possible?īased on his unique orchestra conducting experience over the four increasingly complex opuses of the virtual choir, Whitacre harnessed somehow the essence of something beyond the technical musical details, something that I prefer to call 'the artistic wisdom of the crowd,' an expression borrowed from James Surowiecki's famous book title. So what I've done is, I've adapted 'Cloudburst' so that it embraces the latency and the performers sing into the latency instead of trying to be exactly together.' In this respect, Whitacre embarked on a quite risky artistic adventure.

What really drew my attention, as a cognitive psychologist, is the latency issue in this performance that the composer highlighted during his TED talk by saying, 'we've pushed the technology as far as it can go, but there's still less than a second of latency. But there are still delays and latencies inherent to the physical world where two-way communication systems dwell.

Although, technological advances have significantly improved the effectiveness of queuing mechanisms to ensure such priority. Indeed, any Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) is typically considered a priority traffic to guarantee real-time communication. After the success of four editions of Whitacre's worldwide virtual choir and all the media coverage of the event, one might ask: what's new with one more reading about the virtual choir this time? Maybe the answer is the onstage participation via Skype of 32 performers from different countries as part of an ongoing live performance with all the synchronization headaches it involves.

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