[ExI] zoom creates language weirdness

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, that is really great news for an old band boy (bass sax, Sousaphone,
trombone - changed because the drunks in the back row at the football
stadium kept trying to play my Sousaphone - so I changed to trombone - way
easier to carry).  Imagination will carry the day.   bill w

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:02 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Thanks to BillW on another list for the idea:
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> The term banding together is redundant, but banding apart is an oxymoron.
> Rather it was an oxymoron until covid forced our schools into Zoom.  Now
> our HS band program is still with us, but in some ways better: the students
> cannot play in unison online because of latency.  So… the teacher is
> focusing on music theory, and we discovered she is really good at that.
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> Now the students master their parts, record it with their home equipment
> (on 400 dollar ChromeBooks) with headphones playing the drum part so they
> can be synchronized, then the bandleader volume adjusts the parts to
> balance, puts it all together.
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> Fun part: the pitches can be autotuned, so the product of their banding
> apart is better than they can play if they band together.
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