WikiWoodstockWorldJam

wiki-Woodstock-world-jam

music

Vision: A 24/7 live jam-session for all three days of the wiki-Woodstock on skype played by changing musicians worldwide. The session get’s streamed, so everybody can listen to on on internet radio. It is recorded. There will be a best_of_wiki-Woodstock-world-jam1.mp3 after the event for everybody to download.

Playing improvised spontaneous music, a jam-session on IP-telephony has been tried out, it is possible. The latency makes it different to play but it is possible. It is like playing with someone standing at the other end of a very very large hall, but you perfectly hear the player without any reverb. It’s just a little delayed.

see the world-jam-wiki

Musicians can join sessions when somebody leaves. In case there is big interest in the experiment we can probably set up several session, rather calling them the green, the blue and the purple-jam than by any musicial style. That’s predefining things and we evite to do so.

Passing the signal of the session further to a stream and feeding it to everybody who would like to listen to it is a mere dream but thinking and coding and testing should be possible to be ready for the wiki-Woodstock1. (Hopefully it’s possible with skype. If not it’s another reason to recode skype openly.)

… and if not for No. 1 then for No. 2.

Simultaneous use of skype in a streamed jam-session and irc - also the musicians see it - opens a feedback channel for comments and applause. (“This chorus rocked!” - “Turn down your volume!”, …). Irc is better here than moon-edit (which is limited to only 14 participants). We make a channel #wiki-Woodstock/jam-audience and hopefully have hundreds in there. The audience/musicians interaction should steer the session, no stupid rules like 20 minutes per player maximum or something.