Continuing the discussion from Discoverability on the Fediverse and Thought Dump:
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Totally on board with what @Mel and @Roberta are saying here. A critical part of the “independent sound centre” vision linked in my intro was bricks-and-mortar locations, where local musicians can discover and participate in the network.
Live streaming was in its infancy. But the potential for making niche events available to widely distributed paying audiences, as well as the local scene, seemed obvious. The proof of concept was festivals going online during pandemic lockdowns.
A hybrid approach, having both an in-person and an online component, opens up an event for both kinds of discovery. Promoting the local institutions as well as the artists and online services involved.
So how could we realise this? In the topic on location-specific online music stores, I talked about working with local allies. Institutions that support the local music communities; venues, record stores, practice rooms, recording studios, etc. That seems like a good approach for this too.
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I recently met someone who travels around the UK, live-streaming local electronic open nights to YouTube. And of course, I used to do this at Spirit of Gravity nights in Brighton, and @prinlu often streams live gigs too.
So far, the livestream and live audiences have been kind of separated though. I’d love to try something more interactive, so the in-person audience feels included with livestream banter, and vice versa!
Of course, it’s a totally different type of experience than a normal gig. So expectations would have to be set for that: it’s not just music, it’s chat too.
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Gotcha. A few random ideas for how this could look in practice;
Maybe it’s a sit-down gig, where tablets get passed around allowing the live audience to randomly dip in and out of the livestream chat. Could livestreaming the audience as well as the artists make the livestream audience feel more ‘in the room’? A camera at the back of the crowd maybe, or at the front, but that’s just for example.
Maybe the tablets could have their cameras on, so people willing to have their face in the livestream could grab a tablet to type in the chat. Everyone else could use their phone to the join the chat. Maybe scanning a QRcode, displayed at the door and on the tables, could log your device right into the livestream chat?
The livestream could be vision-mixed by a VJ in the room. Switching between the crowd view, close-ups of the stage, and the tablet views, and maybe mixing in some VJ stuff of their own. But the raw feeds could be livestreamed as well, so the people at home can switch between them and the VJ feed at will. Creating a more interactive experience for them.
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