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On July 19, four high school students improvised with a graduate student over the Internet. The high school students were in Anderson, IN while the graduate student was in Indianapolis, IN. The high schoolers had never performed telematically before, and most of them had never improvised before. For my Masters Degree, I organized this performance and evaluated the educational benefits of such a performance. For more information, please refer to “Telematic Performance With High School Students”
Hardware Requirements:
- A computer with a wired Internet connection
- Microphones and cables
- Audio mixer
- Sound system/speakers
- Digital video camera with firewire connection (or webcam)
- Project and screen or monitor
Software Requirements:
- Windows XP or higher operating system
- Conference XP videoconferencing application
Educational Benefits:
- 100% of the student performers felt that they improved as improvisers
- 75% of the student performers learned about current trends in music technology
- 50% of the student performers enjoyed working with the remote musicians and learned from them
- 74% of the audience responded positively to listening to improvised music
- 56% of the audience learned about current trends in music technology
- 44% of the audience felt the performers at both locations communicated and understood each other musically
Areas for Improvement:
Latency
- Latency causes delays in the audio/visual transmission
- Higher bandwidth, such as found on Internet2 Network, is needed to decrease latency
- Available technology is not yet where it needs to be to allow for a perfect telematic performance
Repertoire
- Must take latency issues into considerations
- Select repertoire that is improvisatory in nature
- Student musicians need a structure in which to create music
- Free improvisation is difficult for many musicians, especially students who are not confident in their improvisational skills
Evaluation:
- Potential to create music with other musicians around the world
- Exchange of musical ideas based on different cultures
- Reduce costs of bringing in guest artists for performances, masterclasses, clinics
- Exposes students to different styles of music
- Students are using cutting-edge technology
- Telematics is not necessary to improve improvisational skills
- Latency issues need to be addressed, either by improved technology or selected repertoire
Checkout http://www.deeplistening.org/telematiccircle
http://virtualsoundexchange.net
Soundjack is high quality audio running on the internet.
Jacktrip running on internet2 remedies latency.
PO
Thanks for the input! I am really thrilled that you took the time to look at my work. I have been to the Deep Listening website. In fact, I wrote about it and your work in my final report. I’ve used Jacktrip while on the Internet2 Network at IUPUI. For this project, we were not on Internet2, so Jacktrip would have dropped packages frequently. Do you have any suggestions for high quality audio for regular bandwidths?
Also, the links that you posted seem to be broken. I can get to the Telematic Circle page by navigating through the Deep Listening site, but not with the hyperlink you posted. The Virtual Sound Exchange is currently offline.
I noticed that the Deep Listening Institute is located in Kingston, NY. I live about an hour away and would love to come by and visit!
Hi Josh,
My reply – a lot of latency! I am teaching my Experimental Telepresence seminar this semester at RPI.
Please let me know if you are still interested. I will check on the broken links.
All best,
PO
When is your seminar? I would love to drive up to RPI to see it!
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is the Virtualsoundexchange.net platform dead? or just changed address? (please tell me the second)