latta@con.Berkeley.EDU (Craig R. Latta) (01/24/91)
NetJam provides a means for people to collaborate on musical compositions, by sending Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) and other files to each other, mucking about with them, and resending them. All those with MIDI-compatible (and other interesting) equipment, access to emailing and compression facilities and to the Internet (send mail as below for details), and who are interested in making music (who isn't?) are encouraged to participate. The process is made simpler by the fact that it is largely automated. Submissions are translated between varying formats and resent automatically. If there is interest, the NetJam group may branch out to the support {soft/hard}ware other than sequencers. For example, there are a bunch of interesting sound synthesis programs out there, like CSound for the NeXT. Submissions, participant info, and other stuff is archived on scam.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.138.1), where it is available via anonymous ftp and by automatic email. To receive the document from which this blurb is extracted (and which explains NetJam at length) send mail to netjam-request@xcf, with a subject line containing "request for info". Anyway, here it is. I look forward to hearing from you. Craig Latta musician and moderator -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Latta "Instant monotony! latta@scam.Berkeley.EDU Just ad nauseum!" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------