NetDynam 2.0

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• hoon says:

  April 16, 2009 at 11:45 pm

  This is interesting from a number of perspectives. Ironically, what it isn’t, is the most interesting to me.
  
  First, it’s got that open source found materials computing-power mash-up thing going’ I don’t know if the mashersmixers got permission or not. But when they say ‘check out the credits you might find you,’ it seems they are in the post-copyright era.
  
  Second, this requires the vision of how to deploy studio skills and software, and, a channel for distribution, in this case youtube. PArticipatory culture as a concept comes into its own when one’s vision can be executed and distributed for close to free.
  
  Third, there are all sorts of online tools for collaborating and streaming back the result to the musician’s studio. I haven’t used any. (Whereas this great youtube video could fool a viewer into thinking all the musicians are jamming together.) I do have a friend who is a great player–I’m not–and he’d be my first choice to play with, in our shared genre of ethno-ambient-industrial-noise music. Presumably I could sit in my studio and he could sit in his, but I could take the laptop and guitar and I/O out to the living room too. Or outside. Wireless.
  
  It wasn’t too long ago, say 15 or so years, that to be able to practice and record in any kind of fidelity meant that someone had to have 4 track and quiet room. Then you’d have to haul and amp and have mic set ups and that jazz.
  
  No more.
  
  See: Nimjam. Then there are collaborative mixing portals: YourSpin, JamGlue, and the new Indaba.
  
  But there’s more. I use IxI music synths, programmed mostly in java. Cross-platform. Free. They’re similar to all sorts of java-based online sound generators. In fact, java sound generators were one of the first java implementations. Now such java apps are being built as widgets and iPhone apps.
  
  (My only finished recording online is attached to the nogutsnoglorystudios blog. I used a handful of patches provided by the Absynth users group. It’s hard to conceive of having that resource at hand without the internet. But the fact of the matter is that computer-based music and internet capability both track the continuing advances in computer power.)

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  • mike says:

    April 17, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    from a musician’s POV, I see your point… the “participatory” is not in fact voluntary, certainly not on the scale of truly collaborative efforts being realized through the resources you’ve pointed to. But your point re:”found sources” is well taken. I think the fact that he carefully documents all of his source links for each “Thru-you” video indicates his concern that each “contributor” be credited.
    
    I have a very modest interest in music myself. Aside from a classical and electric guitar, I use Acid Pro and FruityLoops on my Windows machine in my occasional forays into composition. Acid Express is available as freeware, and the regularly sponsored contests on ACIDplanet.com encourage participation by everyone.
    
    JamGlue is like a web-based version of Acid Express. Kinda nice. I might even try it myself sometime. I haven’t really thought of using my Linux machines for music yet – drivers for the hardware can still be hard to come by, but I’m looking hard at the IxI stuff – bookmarked for when I have more recreational time. Thanks for the tips!
    
    And also, thanks for the links to your recordings – I spent my time working last night to the wonderful ambient sounds of your tracks. nice…
    
    hey – ever thought you could use one of these?
    
    
    
    stephen hobley has the plans available. ah well, one of these days….

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