[linux-audio-user] Re: Net jamming

[Wolfgang Woehl]

Hi jp, Shayne, Jorge, Jesse

the Jam Room is actually about sharing and collaborating and 
improvising, right?  Much more a social act than a technical one.  I 
guess it's not the application that matters but the get together, the 
surprises in that, the laughter and joy.  We could do this with ftp and 
irc, right?  So I think nothing is gonna happen just because of one 
app.  It's going to happen because we want to make music together.  If 
we want that.

Accessible and beautiful instruments like Freewheeling and SooperLooper 
make this easier, in the best case very direct.

I think the ideas of previewing a jam room, selecting loops from a pool 
of contributions, the musical quantum field, Jesse's notion of the 
metadata etc. are fascinating.  Hm, endless possibilities.  I used to 
think "'endless' is good".  Nowadays I think "'endless' is difficult".  
Playing with Ardour and with Freewheeling for some weeks now I've come 
to appreciate the limitations of those instruments.  It makes you 
"commit" (the lack of MIDI tracks in Ardour that is) instead of 
deciding later.  It makes you get into downbeat tapping and into 
getting it right and good :)  Ardour changed my music a lot.  And 
Freewheeling has become a constant source of joy and fun.

Ehm, all I'm trying to say really is that if I was asked how complex and 
capable the Jam Room should be I'd be happy with a very simple 
infrastructure to shake out one big net jam at a time -- as a starting 
point.  We can go places from there on, can't we?  Can't wait ...

Be good wherever you are, Wolfgang