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Lennon and McCartney; Warhol andBasquiat;F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald historys filled with famouscreative duos, and new technology couldcreate more by knocking down collaborative barriers of time and locality.

You dont want to be restricted by geography in finding the person you want to collaborate with, saidShailendra Mathur(pictured), vice president/chief architect at Avid Technology Inc.Artists are finding that digital tech and cloud, in particular, give them more co-creative choices than ever before, he added.

Mathur spoke with Lisa Martin (@Luccazara),host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Medias mobile live streaming studio, during the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week.(*Disclosure below.)

What does cloud deliver? That one centralized location where you can exchange information, exchange your creativity wherever one is in the world, saidMathur.

This is more than correspondence it mirrors in-person human synergy with real-time exchange of ideas, words, images or piano notes. When you are interacting with a surface controller, a mixer thats tactile information thats right there, Mathur said. However, the music created can be experienced remotely, and all computations can be performed in the cloud with all musicians present.

This same seamless collaboration is possible in visual arts.Instead of having a workstation on premise, you actually have it in the cloud, Mathur explained. Advances in virtual display technology now allow advanced visual and graphic technology to work in the cloud.

Things like GPU-based computing thats appearing on the cloud providers thats allowing your cloud back-end to drive your displays now, remotely, he stated.

Journalists can also take advantage of real-time computing to collaborate, not just with other journalists, but with citizens via Twitter and other social feeds.Ill confess, some of my news in the morning is not by the newspaper Im checking my Facebook, Mathur said.

These feeds will not replace professional reporters. You still need the skills of making sure that you can craft it all together, he said. The social feeds can serve as micro sources, purveying the word on the street and providing exposure to diverse views.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLEs and theCUBEs independent editorial coverage of theNAB Show. (*Disclosure: Western Digital is sponsoring theCUBEs coverage at the show. Neither Western Digital nor other sponsors have editorial influence on content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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Artistic collaboration goes 2.0 with real-time cloud computing - SiliconANGLE (blog)