Music and tech team up to cut the milliseconds


Michele Benincaso, founder of Elk, poses with a guitar in his office in Stockholm, Sweden, April 14, 2021. REUTERS/Supantha Mukherjee

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Musicians desperate to work together in harmony while kept apart by COVID-19 lockdowns have been collaborating with tech companies to shave milliseconds from delays on their online connections, driving innovations that will transcend music.

To recreate the experience of performing together live when artists and audiences are apart, a collective effort has been under way to reduce the lag between a sound being produced and being heard, known as latency.

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