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an acapella choir that sings video game songs!

This revolution is still young. As neat as some of this stuff is, innovation in music education is just beginning to heat up, and a handful of recent apps point to a future where learning music is easier, more accessible and even fun.......

The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 Engineering and physics teacher Nelson Nunalee of Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, North Carolina, was the high school winner of Vernier Software & Technology's 2013 Engineering Contest, which showcased creative uses of Vernier sensors with NI LabVIEW software in the classroom. Nunalee's class created virtual instruments as part of their digital music study. In this video, the students explain the process of devising the virtual trombone and demonstrate its use. Watch below or on YouTube.

Two musicians in two cities -- a violinist in Philadelphia (Marjorie Bagley, associate professor of violin from the University of North Carolina Greensboro) and a cellist in Dekalb, Illinois (Cheng-Hou Lee, assistant professor at Northern Illinois University Music School) -- played a duet together in real time, connected via a live audio/video stream on Internet2. They played "Passacaglia" by Handel-Halvorsen, a piece filled with complex interplay of violin and cello. The timing has to be perfect or it falls apart. "It is what we call a showpiece," said Bagley. "It's the sort of thing you show off with." Small delay can make a huge difference in sound For this venue, they were showing off Internet2's low latency capability, or LOLA. Normally, a live stream over the traditional Internet has a delay of about 300 milliseconds (about a third of a second), even before buffering.