Introducing Artsmesh: A Blockchained Presence Engineering Suite for Live P2P Music Performance.

We’ve been working on a Decentralized Presence Workstation (DPW). Musicians have their DAW’s (Digital Audio Workstations) and video artists have their VEW’s (Video Editing Workstations), so why would a serious network performing artist settle for Skype or some other similarly tin-canny, one button video conference solution. We couldn’t call Artsmesh a ‘BMW’ (Broadband Multimedia Workstation) — because that acronym is taken — but that’s what it is. It’s built for LIVE, multichannel uncompressed audio. Super clear audio from New York to Beijing — over IPV6 if you can get it. Get your head out of the cloud: take control of the network: connect your protools, protokens and protocols to the pronet.

Live Network Performance Demonstration between LA and Beijing

Under the hood, Artsmesh embeds a federated social platform (gnuSocial), multichannel uncompressed audio (Jack audio and Jacktrip), video (Syphon and Ffmpeg) and open sound control (oscGroups). You can synchronize scrolling graphic scores between continents, chat over UDP, merge multiple distributed users and groups and view other current live performances in the world map panel. By investing in a professional class of networking infrastructure to support your studio, you will join a wave of serious creative networkers who are embarking on the next massively decentralized live performance industry that is going to make the age of Cloud-on-Demand about as exciting as the fossil fuel based energy industry.

Developed from Syneme’s Telemusic Studio at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Artsmesh runs on multiple machines to distribute the network performance stagecraft workload across multiple gpu/cpu’s and screens. Syneme is on China’s CERNET2 educational research network and performs with many other electronic music studios around the world.

Artsmesh enables net artisans to perform as a node on a network of distributed P2P TV/Sound studios and broadcast the mix live from each node — resulting in a set of divers mixes from a single performance. The delay between cities due to the speed of light over fiber optic networks, determines unique BPMs (beats per minute) for each pair of locations; the relative nature of which is such that this particular delay is set forever in stone. The signal paths between multiple cities affords an environment of multiple delays to create a pattern of polyrhythms that will soon define the essence of ‘network music’ par excellence.

Routing interesting signal paths around the globe will structure the most awesome distributed concert experiences.

Of course it’s on the blockchain! The next phase of Artsmesh 3.0 will fully support an economy of Mesh (MSH) tokens, live concert IP agreements in a decentrasphere of personalized token interchange. Try it now at http://artsmesh.com. The evolution will be broadcast.