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Stanford University

Online Jamming and Concert Technology

Stanford University via Kadenze

Overview

Today's vast amount of streaming and video conferencing on the Internet lacks one aspect of musical fun and that's what this course is about: high-quality, near-synchronous musical collaboration. Under the right conditions, the Internet can be used for ultra-low-latency, uncompressed sound transmission. The course teaches open-source (free) techniques for setting up city-to-city studio-to-studio audio links. Distributed rehearsing, production and split ensemble concerts are the goal. Setting up such links and debugging them requires knowledge of network protocols, network audio issues and some ear training.

Syllabus

  • Basics and Setup
    • Basics: Network protocols, audio signals + soundcards and network audio.
  • Jacktrip Application + Connection
    • Things that go wrong with Jacktrip: Network & Audio. P2P Sessions and Multi-site setups.
  • Polish and Practice
    • Polish techniques and spawn more practice sessions.
  • Future
    • Future of the art and practice of network audio, alternative platforms for network audio.
  • Overview
    • Overview of Online Jamming and Concert Technology
  • Debugging
    • Debug examples of typical problems.

Taught by

Chris Chafe

Reviews

4.0 rating, based on 4 Class Central reviews

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  • Anonymous
    Problems upon problems and the solutions offered only created more problems. Eventually I gave up. Not recommended for someone unfamiliar with the inner workings of the internet.

    Please offer a course on this subject when all the bugs have been worked out and the internet can handle the technology.
  • Anonymous
    I got to jam with someone on the other side of the world! The class is good, but the software seems a bit difficult to run at first to connect to other musicians. By the end i got used to it.
  • Anonymous
    Excellent course created by the people that have helped pioneer the technology. Does require a lot of patience with setting up and testing technology to get the most out of it.
  • Anonymous
    Thank you for your course.
    It was very informative for me as a software developer and a non-professional musician.
    PS: Special thanks for network tech details!

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