Re: BEMF4 and Virutal Performers in Audio-Video

["Boise Experimental Music Festival" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Webex sucks. I use it for work sometimes when vendor refuse to use our HP tool, and afterwards I uninstall it as if it were a virus . All the Business oriented virtual communication apps aren't really designed for high quality audio/video.

 

Kris

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Qua Veda

To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 5:09 PM

Subject: RE: BEMF4 and Virutal Performers in Audio-Video

Cisco’s Telepresence is amazing!   But spendy  ($300K  per room).    OK,  forget that idea… 

How about webex ?  http://www.webex.com/individual/online-meeting.html

Haven’t used it for ~ 5yrs, but it might be worth looking into.

 

-Qua

 

From: Boise Experimental Music Festival [mailto:khartung@cableone.net]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 2:59 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: BEMF4 and Virutal Performers in Audio-Video

 

This year's festival hasn't even begun, and I'm already thinking about next year.  Next year I would like to expand my horizons. I figure that if I can't bring all the people I want from other countries to the festival, I'm going to bring them their virtually.  Next year, I am thinking of having a fair amount of virtual performers at the festival...not like Ninjam, etc, but featured performers on the main schedule and projected on a giant video screen on the stage with audio video.

 

Anyone out there know much about the technology required to do this?  I am not too much concerned about latency, but more interesting in audio/video quality.  I've done some experimenting with just the video functionality of various instant messengers, and some aren't too bad if you have a decent web cam.

 

Thoughts? Ideas? I really want to do this, and if I can pull this off with decent quality, next year I will feature 50% of the performers as virtual, and may even blend that with the local performers.

 

Kris

 

Krispen Hartung
Boise Experimental Music Festival
Event Coordinator and Artistic Director
http://www.boisemusicians.com/BEMF-3/
info@krispenhartung.com
1-208-724-5603