(no)music

(no)music arena

place: Trondheim, Norway

John Hopkins 13::October::2004 21:28 → permalink

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get online early to prep everything, stream at 1400 local time. as per usual, a single glitch pops up when I begin, something that I have not experiences before, but that is also a typical characteristic of glitches. this time, my outgoing audio stream had a scratchy noise overlaying it. so, when I started the actual performance, laboite suggested a few fixes (restart the encoder – MacAmp on a separate G4, or reboot the system), which I did, along with swapping and testing cables and on. all during the time that the performance is running. sweating. so, the stream went down twice, but laboite kept me calm (this by no means the only technical glitch in the 24-hour program!). ended up just having this noise over the actual work which some listeners on the IRC channel liked. I didn’t. but so it goes. I have a hunch that it was an aliasing function between playing mp3 files and then encoding that (albeit an analog output through a mixer to the encoding machine) output to a mp3 shoutcast stream. I could hear that the G4 output was messy, but the output from the mixer was clean. or, something wrong with the USB audio input device, or the audio circuits on the G4 (not outside possibility, as my own G4 has some issues with that), or, or… endless possibilities. that finished, I wandered over to TEKS to meet Espen, and ended up talking with Trine at the Contemporary Art space where an exhibition paralleling TMM is taking place. then back home to catch up on logistic arrangements (buying four different transport tickets for the coming month).

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prepping

place: Trondheim, Norway

John Hopkins 12::October::2004 21:15 → permalink

(no)music arena started in the night and goes all day today. got a small streaming situation set up at the Academy and was testing and irc-ing with some of the other participants — Jerome, Steve, laboite, and others. I’ll do a set mid-day. then matchmaking cranks into gear in the evening. meanwhile meet with Per Erik, another workshop participant for a focused dialogue on an even-morphing range of subjects.