At Virtual Concerts, Technology Determines Experience

As classical music performances, complete with visuals, go online on Second Life and elsewhere, there are some technical hurdles to leap. “‘It’s an odd medium,’ said John Shibley, the director of organizational learning at the consulting company EmcArts, which helped manage (chamber ensemble) Red’s performance. ‘It’s sort of like listening to the radio and watching a puppet show, and the puppet show is not synched to the radio.'”