Re:Zoom improvements requested by music schools
by saberdancer on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:29AM
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Uniform distance matters little for a conductor. Performers watch visual cues from him and speed of light is very fast (unlike sound).
If you are 100 meters away, you have delay of about a third of a second if you use sound, but for light it will be a fraction of a millisecond.
Re:Zoom improvements requested by music schools
by croon on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:40AM
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> Uniform distance matters little for a conductor. Performers watch visual cues from him and speed of light is very fast (unlike sound).
Doesn't matter for the performers, but it matters for the conductor.
> In practice, musicians ignore sound and watch a conductor when separated by such distances [of 100 feet].
It had never occurred to me that a conductor was a kind of clock at an approximately uniform distance from the performers.