Immersion Composition Society

[dagaz]

One of the things about long-distance collaboration and virtual ICS games is the difficulty in connecting & sharing.

Cut to my Google Wave invite (which I got of a guy at work) and an afternoons 'play'.

Ok its a preview and I suspect we are way off an open Beta but even so, this has (I think) great promise.

Wave is like a combination of Instant Messaging and Forum discussions. So you get the real time element with the persistence of a forum. And its a doddle to add media such as audio:

[img]http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/CfsE235Zu8npf8m1fxubrg?feat=directlink[/img]

There are 'public' & 'private' Waves - broadly speaking the equivalent of a Forum thread or conversation. So imagine a virtual lodge game in a private Wave containing the participants and any other ICS nutters who want to watch/comment.

Plus a public one for all.

I would like to set up a public one now - there are a surprising number of musicians already in Wave with several public Waves devoted to DAWS, etc.

(for the pic above I used soundcloud.com which has produced a Wave gadget allowing you to embed audio in a Wave).
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Mike aka 'mcl'
MyWyrd
The Wyrd Lodge, NE England
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[dagaz]

IMG tags no work?

Here is the link without the IMG BBCode.
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MyWyrd
The Wyrd Lodge, NE England
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[dagaz]

I hope I am not being too cheeky but I have created a public wave.

You can find it by searching on:

with:public Immersion Composition Society



As soon as I can I will of course invite Nicholas and get others who are interested involved. I figure if we all invite one or two ICS members it wont be long before we have a good body of folk involved.
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The Wyrd Lodge, NE England
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[Nicholas Dobson]

intimidating!

or at least my brain is intimidated at this moment, because im a little under the weather. once i am over the weather once more i will look at this again. does sound like a good format.
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)

[dagaz]

Yeah it is hard to grasp - I am still figuring it out.

Just found this 'User Manual'.
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MyWyrd
The Wyrd Lodge, NE England
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[Nicholas Dobson]

*gurgle gurgle*
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)

[dagaz]

Heheh. I will save you!

I am amazed that from about 700 wave users there are SO many musicians. The ICS wave has picked up a little interest - which is great!

I was Reading the July Sound on Sound - the article on remixing - and spotted the Doves article. Your book gets mentioned. The wikipedia article mentions this but I hadn't appreciated it was a recent SoS.

Mentioned the SoS article in the ICS wave.
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Mike aka 'mcl'
MyWyrd
The Wyrd Lodge, NE England
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[Nicholas Dobson]

yeah, theres two different articles where they shout out to the book. very gratifying. i keep meaning to contact them and ask for all the dirty details but then *gurgle gurgle* but i shall prevail! *gurgle*

i gots me some personal clouds right now too. blugh. thank god for friends!

ah, glad the wave thing is happening. ill bet that would catch on in the UK especially fast
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)

[dagaz]

Aye there would appear to be a large number of UK folk. One of whom asked me about lodges nr Greenwich. I pointed Jez at the London Lodge.

Its good to hear you got something out of the Dove mention.
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Mike aka 'mcl'
MyWyrd
The Wyrd Lodge, NE England
On Twitter

[Nicholas Dobson]

well, yeah! those guys are total Brit Pop pros. i was fairly impressed by the slickness of what they are doing.
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)

[Nicholas Dobson]

oh, and it occurs to me that it would be a good start to hip all the brit lodges to your Wave site. now if i can just remember how to reach all those maniacs...
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)

[dagaz]

I have my GWave invites. I would of course like to invite you.

I have an email address for you, but not gmail - do you have a gmail account?
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Mike aka 'mcl'
MyWyrd
The Wyrd Lodge, NE England
On Twitter

[dagaz]

I have sent an email to the Burning Lodge but I cant find a contact for either the Heater Lodge or Limey Lodge.
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Mike aka 'mcl'
MyWyrd
The Wyrd Lodge, NE England
On Twitter

[Nicholas Dobson]

Heater is intimately connected to Burning.

as far as Limey, youll find whose loonies in our top friends on the ICS Myspace. you can also find a band called "Elephant Vs. Leopard" in Myspace music. they are Limeys. fun guys. maybe too fun. the most terrifying car ride of my life was administered by one of those maniacs. imagine those skinny-ass London streets, now imagine a guy skidding every corner at what must have been at least 70-80 mph. i felt like kissing the ground when we got safely back to their house in one piece, at which point they did their best to poison me with serbian moonshine in a battered plastic soda bottle that looked like it had sat by the side of a desert road for 10 years. danger! danger! ha ha
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Nicholas Dobson
Supreme Tiger of Origin Lodge, Oakland, CA, USA
(and co-author of THAT BOOK)