Every Tradition Invented the Backing Track
Worship teams, jazz players, cantors, and barbershop singers all solved the same problem in private. Here's what they have in common — and why it matters.
Insights on remote music collaboration, technology, and the future of ensemble performance.
Worship teams, jazz players, cantors, and barbershop singers all solved the same problem in private. Here's what they have in common — and why it matters.
Our paper on eliminating latency in remote music performance was accepted to the 2026 NAfME Biennial Conference in Long Beach, September 30 – October 3.
A step-by-step walkthrough of the Lyrekos Preview Edition from sign-up to your first synchronized session — calibration, ensemble roles, and three worked examples for organizers.
Every song lives on a spectrum from rigid click tracks to free-flowing rubato. Understanding that spectrum reshapes how we think about making music together across distance.
I tested Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude on generating a backing track from a public domain melody. One refused, one faked it, one nailed it. Plus a handy list of free sheet music sources.
Why can't you sing together on Zoom? The answer is latency — and the 25-millisecond threshold that separates music from cacophony.
Four singers across six time zones. First the Zoom cacophony, then Lyrekos locks them in under 20 ms. Watch the demo.
Is Lyrekos helpful if you have only one remote student? Absolutely. Here's how a step-by-step lesson sequence makes one-on-one online music lessons feel perfectly live.
A deep dive into all of Lyrekos' operating modes—Conversation, Live, Unison, and Playback—with diagrams showing exactly how audio flows between leaders, performers, and audiences.
Choral speaking has served educators and communities for millennia. Here's how it works, why it's still essential, and how Lyrekos brings it to remote classrooms.
How music educators can use Lyrekos to teach ensemble performance remotely—preserving the demonstrate-practice-perform cycle that makes music education work.
How two septuagenarians are using AI to build a startup—and what happens when your AI assistant gets confused by too much context.
How a frustrating COVID experience led to a breakthrough in synchronized online singing—and the founding of Lyrekos.
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