Because two neighbors might have yelled at each other through a shared wall before the end of the Renaissance, transmission of sound through condensed-phase material probably occurred before the end of the Renaissance.
Phone conversations over circuit-switched analog and analog-digital networks of the 19th and 20th-Century (analog PSTN and GSM-digitized PSTN) often had fantastic same-room latency.
Phone connections were typically made by human operators at switchboards. Infections of operators reduced phone company capacity, and customers were asked to avoid unnecessary phone use.
Published to YouTube 2019 October 18 Jamulus
Jitterbuffer is a band of German musicians who jam over Jamulus.
Early 21st-Century
A Dark Age for consumer telephony
Super-high-quality low-latency digital audio experiences were becoming more available outside the worlds of voice-over actors using ISDN and academic researchers developing software platforms. However, it was still typical for consumers not to have experience with low-latency digital audio in the early 2000s, when cell phones on 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular networks were prevalent and WiFi 6 (802.11ax) routers were not.
On Tuesday, 2020 March 10,
cell phones provide poor call quality and latency
Prevalent exclusive reliance on digital cell phone service means that many young adults are accustomed to a phone call being laggy, heavily compressed, and yell-inducing.
and home networks are typically not set up for low-latency data transmission.
Older WiFi standards can be unsuitable for low-latency audio because they too easily allow all usable spectrum to be used by ongoing transmissions. WiFi 6 subdivides spectrum into small portions so that even if multiple devices are already transmitting, at least a little portion of spectrum is likely to remain available for the next device that needs to transmit. Before WiFi 6 was widely available, reliably establishing a low-latency, low-jitter connection between a router and computer usually meant using an Ethernet cable, which was often not used (except by gamers).
Then, on Wednesday, 2020 March 11
The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a pandemic.
Spring of 2020
For a lot of institutions, instructors, students, leaders, and ensembles, pausing in-person meetings means
2020 July 20 JackTrip
Dan Tepfer (one of the future founders of FarPlay) and Paul Sikivie livestream their performance of a piece Dan had written the night before.
Over the summer of 2020 Soundjack
Dr. Ian Howell and colleages at the New England Conservatory demonstrate that Soundjack allows a full voice teaching program to be carried out remotely.
2020 November 23 JackTrip
Dan Tepfer (one of the future founders of FarPlay), Eric Harland, and Jorge Roeder livestream Dan Tepfer's Late Night Geometry. cf. New Yorker 2021 March 3
Published to YouTube 2020 December 4 Jamulus
"Singers from Philadelphia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, Nebraska, and Kentucky singing from The Sacred Harp, p. 335 Return Again"
Premiered on YouTube 2020 Dec. 17 Soundjack
Members of North American Vocal Ensemble (Dr. Bonnie Borshay Sneed, Conductor) perform holiday music from sites spread across the conterminous United States.
Published to YouTube 2021 January 9 Soundjack
Eden Casteel (soprano in RI), Dr. Chelsea Whittaker (piano, MA), and Dr. Ian Howell (sound engineer, MA) produce a paraody of Schubert's "Gretchen Am Spinnrade."
2021 June 7 Soundjack and LiveLab
A group of members of the New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus rehearses Paul Halley's "Untraveled Worlds." Lowish-latency LiveLab video allows in-the-moment conducting of changing of tempo.
2021 September 9 Soundjack
Soundjack creator, Alex Carôt, and musicians from both sides of the North Atlantic perform live for a demonstration of Soundjack at the 30th anniversary celebration of Hochschule Anhalt.
2021 September 23 Soundjack
Eden Casteel livestreams the 27th episode of The Eden Show with guest and Soundjack creator Alex Carôt and a special appearance by Bernd Keul.
Published to YouTube 2021 October 28 Elk LIVE
Roberto Prosseda and Alessandra Ammara play Fantasie in F minor by Franz Schubert while separated by 250 km (Cremona and Prato in Italy).
2020-2021 Soundjack and LiveLab
See what New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus members did with Soundjack and LiveLab video during the 2020-2021 in-person rehearsal hiatus.
Published to YouTube 2022 April 21 SonoBus and VDO.Ninja
Bernd Keul (Köln, Germany) and Javier Bofarull Anguera (Valls, Spain) improvise 1451 km apart.
2022 September 1 SonoBus and VDO.Ninja
SonoBus creator Jesse Jappell (Virginia), Flávio Franco Araujo (Sao Paulo, Brasil), Palo Mendex Mendes (Lisbon, Portugal), and Bernd Keul (Köln, Germany) improvised in realtime for a cafè in Köln.
2023 January 25 FarPlay
Balltrip Voice Studio's first livestream test broadcast is carried out using FarPlay and Restream and supported by the Somerset-Pulaski Economic Development Authority.
Published to YouTube 2023 Feb. 26 SonoBus and VDO.Ninja
SonoBus creator Jesse Chappell (Fairfax, VA) and Bernd Keul (Köln, Germany) improvise 6399 km apart.
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