- Title
- A virtual choir ecology and the zoom-machinic visual technologies as a panacea for social isolation
- Creator
- Grushka, Kathryn; Lawry, Miranda; Sutherland, Kim; Fergusson, Charrisa
- Relation
- Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy Vol. 5, Issue 1, p. 1-16
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23644583-bja10013
- Publisher
- Brill - Sense
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- visual technologies against social isolation; virtual choir; machinic autopoiesis; zoom ecology; deleuzoguattarian thinking; becoming virtual
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1456366
- Identifier
- uon:45214
- Identifier
- ISSN:2364-4583
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Cc-By 4.0 license.
- Language
- eng
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