http://extrafancy.net/idia620 A Study of Online Musical Collaboration Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:42:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have recently discovered a very new and unique way for musicians to collaborate online. Imagine 2 or more people, connected only by a broadband Internet connection playing improvisational music in 'real-time' together. Ninjam facilitates just such a situation. So, how can people play music on the Internet in ... http://extrafancy.net/idia620/?p=1 Ok, here is the abstract for my paper. I know that I should have been 'exploring' my ideas in the blog first, and then coming up with the abstract. But, that didn't happen. What I will do is explore some of the details of what I am researching in future ... http://extrafancy.net/idia620/?p=2 I just discovered this document while poking around online. It looks like an 'official manual' for Ninjam. The creators refer to the 'semi-syncronous' nature of Ninjam as 'fake time': Ted, Steve, and Rob are all musicians jamming with Ninjam. Ted is playing the drums in time with Ninjam’s metronome, Steve is ... http://extrafancy.net/idia620/?p=3 When most people think of music improvisation, they think of Jazz greats from the 50’s such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. This type of music improvisation usually involved a structured ‘song’, arranged by the composer. The difference between orchestral scores and s jazz scores is that jazz ... http://extrafancy.net/idia620/?p=4 I have found that trying to round up people to participate in a planned Ninjam session is a difficult task to accomplish. This could explain why there is very little traffic on their message boards. Part of the allure of using Ninjam is just dropping in when ever, ... http://extrafancy.net/idia620/?p=6 Here is a link to the survey I have sent to the members who use Ninjam and My Virtual Band. The more information I get, the better. So thank you to everybody who has already responded. And, if you haven't responded yet, the survey is very short-- it should only ... http://extrafancy.net/idia620/?p=8 So, I have been collaborating musically on both the Ninjam and the My Virtual Band sites. I thought that I would post some of the results of these collaborations, and analyze the results. It turns out that that the resulting recordings are very different, as you will soon hear. First up ... http://extrafancy.net/idia620/?p=9 Now, I will let you hear some examples of collaborations I participated in on My Virtual Band. For my first example, I would like to walk you through the process of collaboration on MVB. Since MVB is an asynchronous collaboration platform, there are various versions of the recording throughout the ... http://extrafancy.net/idia620/?p=10