connect communicate collaborate LOLA ( LOw LAtency Audio Visual Streaming System) A LOW LATENCY, HIGH QUALITY AUDIO/VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR NETWORK MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AND INTERACTION Conservatorio G. Tartini Consortium GARR
connect communicate collaborate...at the GARR Conference 2005, in Pisa... To perform together, from distant locations... as if distance has vanished in a click of a computer mouse. The Dream…
connect communicate collaborate H.323/SIP A/V tools before LOLA… DVTS Conference XP Skype
connect communicate collaborate H.323/SIP DVTS Conference XP Skype Latency: 400ms Echo Latency: 200ms Audio for voice Auto echo cancellation Latency: 350ms Echo Latency: > 300ms Audio for voice Auto echo cancellation A/V tools before LOLA…
connect communicate collaborate LOLA Latency: 5ms Audio for music No echo Very Fast reliable networks Hi-Speed cameras Machine Vision Grabbers Good PC (i5/i7) … New programming approach! Mbps 500 Mbps 30 fps 60 fps 2 ch 8 ch
connect communicate collaborate Target applications: Network interactive musical tasks musical rehearsing and performances music education and training... but also... Network interactive on stage performances dance performances drama performances performing arts education and training and beyond… surgery, real time control … Motivations and Goals
connect communicate collaborate Latency: ~25ms (one way) is the confort limit for most instruments Discoveries with LOLA Courtesy of Nathan Brock, UCSD Sound rendering: mixing different ambients; reproducing acoustic instruments;
connect communicate collaborate Network Performing Arts Production Workshop: Tartini (Trieste) – IRCAM (Paris) 1300Km. Network Performing Arts Production Workshop: Tartini (Trieste) – Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) 2700Km. Internet2 Fall Members Meeting: NIU (Chicago, IL) – Congress Center (Raleigh, NC) 1850km. Network Performing Arts Production Workshop : NIU (Chicago, IL) – NWS (Miami, FL) 2400km. AEC Annual Meeting for International Coordinators: Tartini (Trieste) – SS. Marcellino & Festo (Naples) 1200Km. JANET Performing Arts Networkshop : Royal College of Music (London) – Napier Univ. (Edinburgh) 700km. LOLA Events
connect communicate collaborate Trieste Next International Festival: Tartini (Trieste) – Ca’ Foscari (Venice) – Academy of Music (Ljubljana) 750Km (on GARR shared network) Km (on a 1Gbps Lambda) LOLA public Concert
connect communicate collaborate Northern Illinois University School of Music - DeKalb, IL, USA CESNET - Czech Republic Research and Education Network - Praha, CZ New World Symphony - America's Orchestral Academy – Miami, FL, USA Internet2 networking consortium - Washington, DC, USA Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale - Cassino, Italy JAnet - UK Education and Research Network - Oxford, Didcot, UK Universidade de São Paulo - CMU, Departamento de Música - São Paulo, Brasil Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Department of the Arts - Troy, NY, USA MAGPI - Mid-Atlantic Gigapop - Multimedia Service - Philadelphia, PA, USA Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries, Music dept. -Edinburgh, UK University of North Carolina, School of Music, Greensboro, NC, USA University of Virginia, School of Arts, Charlottesville, VA, USA Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark Joseph Haydn Konservatorium, Eisenstadt, Austria University of Southern California, School of Music, Los Angeles,CA,USA Contact us at build you own PC and join the LOLA: the community
connect communicate collaborate Making a LOLA PC Node Construction - Commercial Machines Available - Additional Hardware Support - CoaXpress (CXP)/Bitflow Karbon - Other ASIO Soundcards Steps Forward….
connect communicate collaborate G.F. Handel/J. Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and cello Marjorie Bagley, violin School of Music, Theatre and Dance University of North Carolina – Greensboro, NC Cheng-Hou Lee, cello School of Music Northern Illinois University – DeKalb, IL Let’s see…