[LAU] good players

Kevin Cosgrove kevinc at doink.com
Wed Nov 14 04:19:04 EST 2007


On 10 November 2007 at 17:22, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:

> I haven't had very good luck doing collaboration via email and
> ftp; it seems to go much smoother and be a lot more fun live
> with everyone in the same room, but I'm willing to try.

Sure, live is like nothing else.  I want to explore what the 
strengths and weaknesses of distance collaboration might be.

> I'd imagine that linux audio geeks will have have more tools in
> common than musical styles or goals in common, but that might
> result in some very interesting music indeed.

All those differences are the same that one can experience with
live players, no?

> Then again, we probably all use a pretty diverse suite of tools
> too. What would the lingua franca be? An Ardour project? Ogg or
> wavpack files? MIDI files?
>
> Would communication be over email? Via IRC or Jabber or
> something more real-time-like?

Man, you ask really good questions.

> My stuff is here: http://www.restivo.org/blog/

Nice stuff there for sure!  Being a drummer, I gotta ask, what
are you using to get your sounds?  I really enjoy the odd-time
stuff.

Cheers.....

 
--
Kevin





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