30 Sep
2003
30 Sep
'03
6:22 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:58:22 -0230, Juhan Leemet wrote:
Yes, I remember someone (non-technical) telling me
about this great system
that allowed musicians on both coasts of North America to perform a "live"
piece together, across the internet. It was some kind of university project.
They even pulled out a newspaper or magazine article about it. I read it
through several times. I could not believe that you can get latencies (esp.
cross-continent) down low enough to allow "interactive jamming", where both
sides hear each other in real time.
Yeah, there was some work done about it in MIT. Many universities have
this thing called the Access Grid, which is a sort of high bandwidth video
coferencing rig - it uses stereo 16bit uncompressed audio at pretty low
latency (I'd guess < 20ms).
- Steve