Video Milonga

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gyb

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Given most milongas are closed, Argentine Tango Radio is throwing a Video Milonga tonight, using the free conference video application Zoom. It takes 1 minute to install it (works on smartphones etc). Participation is currently limited to 500. Put on your dance shoes, or some crazy dress which can entertain others, and join in to dance, chat, or just listen and watch other tangueros and tangueras.

Details:
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Live Virtual Video Milonga - dance at home and watch hundreds of others doing the same!

Join (hopefully) hundreds of tangueros and tangueras tonight in a Live Virtual Video Milonga, hosted on Zoom! Turn on your camera, dance in...
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No gender balancing guaranteed! :)

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gyb said:
Given most milongas are closed, Argentine Tango Radio is throwing a Video Milonga tonight, using the free conference video application Zoom. It takes 1 minute to install it (works on smartphones etc). Participation is currently limited to 500. Put on your dance shoes, or some crazy dress which can entertain others, and join in to dance, chat, or just listen and watch other tangueros and tangueras.



I'm not on Facebook, so feel free to share..
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wow!
don't really know what this is , but it sounds great
 
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The way Zoom works with conventional videoconference is everyone has a cam, and it figures out who is speaking from the microphone sound levels. It then shows everyone that person's video. In this case, I'm guessing it will just show the band all the time, so you probably won't see any of the dancers, but will be interesting to see how it works!
 
Sorry to miss this. Not that my camera is very good . . . I use a huge, static desktop computer (I work from home, so portability isn't of importance), and it's nowhere near the part of the apartment where dancing would make sense. Plus the camera would mostly show an office, which wouldn't be relaxing for others. ;)
 
What a fantastic idea! I'd suggest turning off your camera if you aren't dancing. Does Zoom have a tiled mode? Can it rotate between cameras automatically? It would be fun to have a 3x5 or more grid of dancers' videos going. I'll try to get Zoom to do that. A brute force way to do it would be to run several Zoom instances and put a different dancing couple on each one.
 
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What a fantastic idea! I'd suggest turning off your camera if you aren't dancing. Does Zoom have a tiled mode? Can it rotate between cameras automatically? It would be fun to have a 3x5 or more grid of dancers' videos going. I'll try to get Zoom to do that. A brute force way to do it would be to run several Zoom instances and put a different dancing couple on each one.
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Zoom works in one of two modes:

1. Host-controlled, where they 'pin' one camera, so everyone sees it (and can change the pinned camera at any time)

2. Automatic, where it works out who is speaking and switches to them

Automatic mode probably won't work when everyone is playing the music through speakers, so it will need the host to view the grid and just switch between couples.
 
Zoom does have a neat tiled mode. I think it would be neat to see 49 couples dancing on the screen at the same time.
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Here are the instructions to set it up:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360000005883

The meeting organizer can mute all participants, so the music would continue unabated. It's probably hoping for too much that everyone would stay muted. I assume the chat function would still work.

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gyb said:
The Live Virtual Video milonga idea inspired a virtual tango festival, starting tomorrow:

[... and from your online milonga experiences ...]
"I now think 4 hours was maybe too long for such an event, it spread out the attendance, and only few couples could dance through the whole thing, given that there was no opportunity for partner change."
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So was the virtual festival a success?
And will you continue do DJ video milongas?

Slowly am I ready for some online activites, maybe I'll attend today this:
blog.neunmalsechs.de

Milonga Tango Armónico

Milonga mit harmonischen traditionellen und modernen Tangos und Non-Tangos (ca. 1/3, 1/3, 1/3). In diesem Rahmen sind wir aber sehr experimentierfreudig - mal gaaanz langsam, mal gaaanz schnell, mal gaaanz anders.
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It's mixed music - so we can dance some tandas and let it run in the background on neo tracks. ;-)
But in general I for me are 3-4 tandas with my partner enough at an evenening - real or virtual.
 
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