A Virtual Choir Ecology and the Zoom-machinic

Kathryn Grushka, Miranda Lawry, Kim Sutherland, Charissa Fergusson
2021 Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy  
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
more » ... 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.
doi:10.1163/23644583-bja10013 fatcat:3snw6kspwffqvkt2vw6pxtxm3i