This is a great initiative, but man, it really brings home the fact that we are truly in danger of losing so many cultural things that matter. It's truly heartbreaking. I suppose each of us now have to choose what to support. And now that I think about it, I'm going to email the ED of my local orchestra, hpo.org, and suggest they copy this initiative!
What are the chances we can develop a way to stream good quality audio back and forth at acceptable latency (a few ms max) to make possible for bands to play live, each member from different locations? It would probably involve using dedicated connections plus axing a lot of security infrastructures to reduce latency, and make the remaining predictable.
Sadly latency makes this almost impossible. However, the guy who made Winamp came up with an interesting solution to this: https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/
The idea is, everyone's playing is delayed by one measure, so they are playing along with people from the past, while everyone else is playing along with a past version of them. Kind of crazy.
On my current connection, the first hop is 20ms, so it's hopeless.
Generally speaking though, you'd need wired connections, good routing, and excess bandwidth, since you'd want to forgo compression, since it's less predictable and adds delay.
So, what if we had client that would "account" for that delay and perform correction measures when mixing the audio streams? Net gaming has kind of solved it, of course for lower bandwidth streaming, but I feel that bandwidth is not the issue here .
The autorities must have cracked down on corona parties - https://imgur.com/grTlPcP.png. Apologies for providing a screenshot, but it is really funny how the two headlines mix together :D
Sadly, many Berlin clubs were close to closing even prior to C19. Griessmuehle, one of the clubs hosting this event, was facing imminent closure as late as January. Hopefully this scene will thrive in the post-pandemic world of reinvigorated rent prices.
The guys on it right now are rocking out but are not standing 6ft away from each other! :)
German surf band rocks out in bare feet and a plant taped to their microphone stand!
Excellent link- thank you for posting this- totally uplifted my spirits on a mentally rough day.
edit: Here's the band's youtube page and their about us blurb:
> il Civetto is a balkan/swing-gipsy-pop-whatsoever-band based in the beautiful city of Berlin. We're also touring a lot, so check out our facebookpage, we might be playing in your hometown ;)
I guess it's nice for people who like electronic music. The Berlin scene is known for having some of the highest quality clubs and performances in the world.
If you were looking for other genres then I apologize. It's only going to be electronic music of some form.
Not my genre (prog rock), but I'm enjoying it. Unfortunately I could get only a glimpse at the previous band, however the Sorry Entertainer DJing now seems quite a talented artist.
Big thumbs up for the initiative!
https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/77946-save-berlin-s-...
This is a great initiative, but man, it really brings home the fact that we are truly in danger of losing so many cultural things that matter. It's truly heartbreaking. I suppose each of us now have to choose what to support. And now that I think about it, I'm going to email the ED of my local orchestra, hpo.org, and suggest they copy this initiative!