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   Jake Hildreth (acorn) :blacker_heart_outline: (horse@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 06:20:38 JST Jake Hildreth (acorn) :blacker_heart_outline:

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   • John Carlos Baez

   @OscarCunningham @johncarlosbaez I love this idea. I could see someone extending the idea to include several groups of musicians, natural echoes, etc.

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     Oscar Cunningham (oscarcunningham@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 06:20:47 JST Oscar Cunningham

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     • John Carlos Baez

     @johncarlosbaez It would be an interesting gimmick to have a piece played by two groups of musicians some distance apart, where he audience is instructed to walk slowly from one group to the other.

     The two parts would slowly go out and back into phase with each other. There would also be interesting effects on the timbre from one group being quiet and near while the other is louder and further away.

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     John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 06:20:54 JST John Carlos Baez

     Why do orchestras need conductors?

     There are various reasons, of course, but here at 0:26 Adam Neely suggests one I hadn't thought about:

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHoljbkyAEs

     The speed of light is faster than the speed of sound!

     For a large orchestra it can take 0.1 seconds for sound to make a round trip between two performers... and that's a huge amount of time in music. So, get them synched up using light signals instead!