[Harp-L] Virtual jams?

["HarpNinja" <harpninja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've done quite a few of these over the years.
Bitstream Boogie Live at the Juke Joint
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVHoNhiowVA was with me in Tokyo and Piano
player in Toronto

SynaesthAsia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR9tHo2JEs8 was me in Tokyo and
an electronic wind player in Taiwan

International jams have their own set of issues with latency, but if you
listen closely you will hear that the style of these is designed to
incorporate this, as you cannot obviously do tight arrangements even with
good with latency compensation.
These used ninjam http://www.cockos.com/ninjam/ 

That said there are a few technical options now for doing this, and
depending on your bandwidth, network, and physical distance between players
it can be close.
Quality of sound is better with dedicated tools rather than skype or google+
which are using voice protocols, not really suited to music.

I'm actually the process of adding some networking to http://harpninja.com
but this is more for some call & response gameplay than jamming as in above.
Hope that helps!

Paul Cohen aka Komuso Tokugawa
Shibuya-Ku 
Tokyo, Japan 
Skype: sonicviz 
http://www.sonicviz.com 
http://music.sonicviz.com/ 
http://harpninja.com 
http://chordskilz.sonicviz.com/ 
Linked In: Paul Cohen 
Twitter: @sonicviz @komusotokugawa @harpninja






On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:40:02 AM UTC+9, Sean Murphy wrote:
Has anyone had any luck with any online jamming tools? 

I have been exploring the idea of using Google Hangouts as a virtual 
jamming tool, especially since their new "studio mode" is supposed to 
dedicate more bandwidth to the audio stream, giving better fidelity to the 
sound. But I'm starting to think that it's less collaborative and more just 
a way for a singer or band to broadcast to an audience. 

I know there are several dedicated jam tools, many of them open source - 
has anyone used them, and are there any recommendations? 

Any observations would be welcome! 

Sean