laptop duet

.cc – week eleven.

On Monday night Craaaazy Matt and I teamed up for a jam. We both were on our mac laptops, and as such found it incredibly easy to network. See here:


The main idea for our collaboration was to create some drum beats. Having done some work with this idea in Max/MSP already, I decided create the drum beats then send this to Matt over our network, and for him to map it into a program such as Reason. So while I was in charge of creating the initial MIDI data, Matt would fine tune the resulting audio data.

Distributed Performance

weimer vs crazy matt

We jammed away using this model several times, and we certainly enjoyed it. We did notice that there was lag using the wireless network, however I was creating the drum beats in advance so it did not matter. Above is an audio sample that I liked, there was plenty more - for another check on Matt’s blog.

.sources.

Haines, Christian 24.05.07 "Distributed Performance." Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide.