Lyrekos lets people sing together from anywhere on earth.
Not by making the internet faster, which nobody can do, but by giving everyone the same thing to sing against. It runs in a browser. There’s nothing to install.
Headphones, if you have them.
Four singers. Los Angeles, Canberra, Melbourne. Two takes, no editing.
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How it works
Sound takes time to travel and signals take time to cross a network. On a video call everyone hears everyone else late, by a different amount for each pair, drifting minute to minute. No group stays together under those conditions, and no amount of bandwidth fixes it.
So we don’t ask singers to synchronize with each other. We give them one shared reference to sing against — a backing track, a previous take, or a person leading live — and everyone locks to that instead. A circle of singers listens to each other. Lyrekos gives you a reference circle instead. Same result, different geometry.
After the first pass, each singer hears everyone else’s last take, so they’re singing with the group rather than into a void, and you iterate as many times as the piece needs. Or drop the track entirely and conduct: your singers hear you and watch your hands, and you become the reference yourself.
Why Zoom fails for music goes through the physics in full.