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So this is not about our live looping using technology, but, as those of you familiar with the work can attest, has to do with loops in the widest sense. I'm thinking about putting together a virtual performance of Terry Riley's "In C" using ninjam technology. So how does it work? 1. THE PIECE: (For people familiar with "In C", read on to the next section) "In C" is a composition by Terry Riley where any number of musicians (Riley suggests about 35) play a sequence of notatet repeating musical patterns of varying length. Each player decides for himself how often he plays every section. Everyone plays to a common pulse (usually performed by a piano hitting the high C in eights). There's a score for download here: http://www.patrickgrant.com/InC.pdf What happens is that those different sections will sound together, with different offsets, to produce some ever-changing...thing. 2. THE TECHNOLOGY: I'll be using the good ol' ninjam for this. Ninjam is a software which allows for realtime music collaborations via internet by rounding up the transmission delays to a value that makes sense musically (e.g. one measure). This works very well with this specific piece, because it really doesn't matter if a single player is heard by the others one measure earlier or later, as long as he is on the beat. There's a basic tech writeup about ninjam here in the archives: http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200605/msg00185.html 3. THE IMPLEMENTATION: Everyone sits at home (or at a venue, or on a sailboat with internet access or whatever). Then someone (e.g. me) sends the annoying high C pulse, then all play the piece. We can also stream it somewhere. Time frame: not entirely sure about an actual date - open for discussion! 4. NEXT STEPS: Discussions/questions: here, if it's ok. Just telling me "I wanna be in it" - offlist, please. Yours, Rainer -- http://moinlabs.de Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/moinlabs