Today, online voting begins to select the members of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, which (as The Washington Post announced in December) will perform at Carnegie Hall on April 15 under Michael Tilson Thomas -- an ensemble selected entirely from video auditions posted on YouTube, culled by judges in leading symphony orchestras around the world and chosen in part by votes from YouTube viewers. This means you.Because, natch, you can judge a musician by an audition tape, and because a symphony's chemistry as a group together is overrated.
This speaks a bit to the work I've been doing on information versus wisdom and knowledge. Turns out the web is great at conveying information, but the sum of its parts remains elusive. It's a bit like closing your eyes and randomly selecting a pair of pants and shirt to wear; the fact that they're in your dresser counts for something, but how to assemble an outfit?
In short, what suffers in a web-dominant culture is art, which involves a complex stew of emotions, historical understanding, technical adeptness, and time.
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