| What? |
| Intelligent
Machinery is now hosting a Monthly
Internet Collaboration Noise
Free-For-All concert event.
This event is open to the public
for all interested noise, dark
ambient, electroacoustic and
abstract sound dabblers who
want to participate in a live
improvised collaboration of
sound. |
he
didn't even need pants |
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why get dressed up to go out and
play when you can play at home? |
Why? |
| To
provide a forum of experimentation
that allows musicians the world over
the opportunity to collaborate in
a live event with other artists without
the hinderances of traditional live
performance. To make giant walls of
noise with the aid of other anti-music
miscreants from the comfort of your
own house. To hone your improvisational
chops and learn to explore new methods
of creating sound. Put simply - to
rock out without having to put on
pants and pack up your gear. Have
a drink, fire up the rig and have
fun. |
Where?
Historically these events have
been preceeded and followed
by an informal chat in the #musika
room on efnet. This is not required
and anyone is allowed to participate
in the concert regardless of
their appearance in the chat
room. We just use the chat as
a convenient meeting place before
the action takes place. Its
the "Green Room",
if you will. For those of you
who aren't fluent in IRC or
those who don't have IRC clients,
the Chat link located in the
blue box to the left will take
you to a chat applet that connects
to the #musika room for your
chatting pleasure. Be sure to
read the directions on the page |
|
dear friend Wayne |
How? |
| Months
ago when we first attempted this my
dear friend Wayne of FERALCATSCAN
introduced me to a fantastic tool
known as NINJAM. NINJAM is designed
specifically to allow musicians to
"jam" over the internet.
It works by connecting to a central
server and sending a stream of your
audio to the server where its then
rebroadcast to everyone else connected
to that server. You, in turn, hear
the streams of everyone else connected
to the server. |
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| Useful
Links |
Official
Schedule Thread
Podcast
NINJAM
Site
NINJAM
Download
Past Events (.mp3 format)
October 2006
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007
February 2007
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| Getting
Started |
If you want to participate
in the Montly Noise Free-For-All you'll
first need the NINJAM Client which
you can download at the link above.
After you install
the client you can configure your
audio settings to system specific
settings and set up your local channels.
When you're ready to connect click
File -> Connect and in the "Connect
to Host" box you'll put the server
to which you wish to connect (will
be announced prior to concert per
event) and the username you want others
to see once you've connected.
Then hit "Connect"
and prepare for the noise.
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| Listening
In |
Currently the only way to
listen to the live performance as
its happening is by connecting to
the NINJAM server with the client
software.
This doesn't mean
you have to participate - you don't
even have to transmit a signal - but
it does mean that you'll need to have
bandwidth capable of handling the
amount of incoming streams being generated
by the performers.
Typically this is
not a problem for 256k DSL and better,
but our friends still on dial-up most
likely will not be able to attend.
There will be a podcast
of the event available after-the-fact
for those unable to attend the performance.
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