Abstract
Abstract covid-19 has changed the way we sing in choirs and has seen the extraordinary uptake of Zoom as a video chat platform across society. This is a reflective tale of four choirs members and their insights into how they improvised with traditional choir singing in a Zoom space. It consideres how zoom pedagogies allowed them to bridge social isolation during the pandemic. It includes the voices of the conductor; music teacher/technician; the voice of a media savvy artist choir member and finally the voice of a singing visual educator. The article embeds Deleuzoguattarian thinking. It draws on the concepts of the machinic assemblage and becoming as choir participants who embraced Zoom to facilitate song. Singing in a zoom virtual choir brings forth a burgeoning new relational way of being. To find ways to sing and imagine life and self without physical, temporal and spatial borders.
Highlights
Visual Technologies as a Panacea for Social IsolationAbstract covid-19 has changed the way we sing in choirs and has seen the extraordinary uptake of Zoom as a video chat platform across society
Introduction covid19 has changed and intensified the way individuals communicate virtually within society
It provides evidence to sustain the idea that the Song Sisters have experienced a new burgening relationally in which Zoom pedagogies offer up a new way of being
Summary
Abstract covid-19 has changed the way we sing in choirs and has seen the extraordinary uptake of Zoom as a video chat platform across society. The authors recount and reflect on how k nowing self through zoom singing would shift the choir members collective identities It discusses identity shifts through the idea of sense making as experience within a virtual choral ecology. These diverse relationships are not closed and must continuously undertake replacement of its components according to external forces in order to adapt He goes beyond the idea of subjectivity or being as operating within a unique experiencing biological system video journal of education and pedagogy 5 (202D0o)wn1l-o1a6ded from Brill.com11/02/2021 10:17:13AM (mind and body) to its complex constitution dependent on ‘an ensemble of conditions’ A zoom choir is driven by the digital and virtual phenomenon of webbased video conferencing tools They are reshaping past machinic assemblages and they increasingly have a telepresence that is infiltrating across all society (Kei Kato & Ishiguro, 2011). Each virtual choir rehearsal has the potential to disrupt all previous learning moments in the continuous articulation of their new sound, becoming a virtual choir
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