Let it go GSO. This is rather special and quite an amazing feat of technology and bringing people together when they can only be apart. My eldest daughter's mother posts this stuff on Facebook but I won't repost Facebook here if I can avoid it, the thanks for this post goes to Shona.
That’s pretty good Oss. Is that done with Zoom? We have been listening to this in our house. The music was recorded before lockdown, but the video shot after:
This is my daughter’s Taekwondo instructor’s view of all of his students at home. And my colleague is now using Zoom to teach Engineering Graduates in Germany, from his house in Aberdeenshire. And my batch mates at university in the 70s are having a reunion in a couple of weeks using Zoom. It really is amazing. And that GSO gathering is excellent.
I have absolutely no idea how they do it, the quality suggests very high level recording. It's clearly multi track because more than one of the performers are appearing more than once at the same time I actually enjoyed the quality of the performance and that lassie is a hell of a singer and might even have done a better version than the original.
Is that Glasgow Symphony Orchestra rather than “Studio” as if so it will be a quality group of musicians?
No it's "Studio" follow the YouTube link. These guys http://www.glasgowstudioorchestra.com/ I had never heard of them but very impressed.
The downloads speeds must be good where they are! Like you say the performance is excellent considering the group are all locked down at home etc.
It's definitely not live, it has been assembled from bits as Mr "Weapons of Mass Percussion" t-shirt is doing many things at the same time but although it has the feeling of being live it is a composite. I just really liked the performance and Cariss Crosbie's vocals were particularly expressive although she stuck to the original pretty closely but there were to my ear, at least, a few departures from the original that were very well done.
It would be fascinating to see something like this done live but the latency and sync issues would be horrific.
Yeah took me a wee while to notice too The guitarist is also playing the violin, but I love these folk who are multi instrumentalists.
Indeed. With the Taekwando lessons there is some “lag” which isn’t really serious for that purpose but would be if a band of musicians were attempting to perform synchronously.
Indeed, you get used to all these TV Skype interviews now where lip sync is basically meaningless I'd love to move back to Scotland, although Glasgow would be too expensive for me but they have a great music scene up there.
On a slightly different slant, the COVID situation is driving a lot of new ideas, you may have seen this already though:
I caught it on the news a wee while back but then again I'm running 40 minutes delayed on Sky 503 BBC News He said he had 4 million views or something when I watched. He also did one for The Coronavirus Newscast with Laura Kusenberg when I watched.
Here's someone showing a little of how this is done, they really are stitching together phone videos and some higher quality camera videos to do all this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-52168703/coronavirus-how-a-church-sings-when-the-choir-can-t-meet
Yeah and the people doing the stitching get overwhelmed by what emerges from their work, that to some extent where my sentiment of 'bringing people together when they can only be apart' came from. All that skill and talent coming together to make something unique a unique performance every time.