#201

Lines Community Stream v1 summary

First and foremost, another big thank you to all who watched and participated. What a fun time this was.

It was, as expected, a big undertaking. But I feel(please correct me if you feel different) that this went as smooth as it could with the tools we used. Twitch is by no means a perfect platform for this, since the /host feature is kind of a hit/miss when it comes to the whole “refresh to see hosted stream” issue but throwing up a message to tell viewers to refresh is not the biggest hassle.

I feel inclined to look into @mzero hosting solution, but my mind is not ready for that knowledge yet(I might pick your mind sometime soon @mzero). I feel really bad for the performers who had technical issues along the way, but it is really hard to completely avoid(and thankfully we got performances without technical issues uploaded to the YouTube summary).

Now, what to do as far as the future goes? I am very open for input here. What should we do different?

My thoughts:

  • We’ll do a stream once a month.
  • A smaller lineup, like the Saturday lineup.
  • Maybe center the stream around a theme, disquiet junto style?

I really want to underline that the account is open for anyone to use for events/streams.

My head is full of inspiration and not really good at putting thoughts into words these days. But hopefully this made some sense?

Stay safe.

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#202

I quite like the idea of the theme (but then I like that kind of thing anyway)

Thank you again for all you put in & would love to do it again.

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#203

I also like the idea of a theme (perhaps periodically?).
Theme or not, it would be great to see this become a monthly event. It was fun hanging out in Discord and I appreciated the supportive atmosphere everyone came together to create.

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#204

I think w/r/t technical difficulties, in my case it was entirely my fault and something I should’ve tested and made sure was solved beforehand.

It’s a hard thing to solve systematically but perhaps people could start streaming earlier and a second person could help check for issues and troubleshoot. That’s the only suggestion I can come up with.

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#205

Agreed. I tried doing that, but it might have been one too many balls to juggle.

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#206

Smaller regular events seem like a great idea!

Regarding sharing the account more, a simple thing to do would be to leverage the Twitch auto-host feature between events.

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#207

Big events - less frequent.
Smaller events - more frequent.

I think a once every 6 month event like the first: Two days - many hours per day - open to all of lines, all styles.

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#208

The Festival of Lines!

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#209

I really like the idea of a theme.
I also like the idea of bigger event every 6 months but I am aware that organizing such thing is much more harder/time consuming than shorter ones so I would totally understand if you wouldn’t feel like it :stuck_out_tongue:
And regarding the technical side of things I think given the scale and tools I turned out really nice. People had a clear message to refresh the browser in case of any problems so I don’t think it was a big problem. The only thing that I wish would work is preserving chat history between refreshes because I felt like I lost some converstations because of it but maybe I just missed some option in twitch.

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#210

I’m not as into the theme personally, I enjoy just seeing all the wide variety of performance styles/techniques/methods/concepts.

That said I’d participate either way, themes probably wouldn’t be a dealkiller for me.

The whole thing is very fun, glitches and all. Thanks for making it happen!

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#211

Big events - less frequent.
Smaller events - more frequent

Both of these sound cool to me. And I’m totally cool either way on the theme portion of it. The one thing I’d prefer is for themes to be poetic/artistic in nature and to stay away from being focused on processes, or more importantly, pieces of gear (“only modular”, etc.)

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#212

Totally agree with this.

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#213

Seconded from my end as well. Open ended and more as a source of inspiration, not a guideline on what to do/how to do it.

Another question: how should we handle signups for smaller events? First come first served?

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#214

Yeah I’d say just post a signup sheet with a certain number of spots and then maybe the next time the people who participated last can hold off for a few days to give a chance for others

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#215

Maybe I am in minority but I actually like themes focused on process as they really narrow down my options which is great because I tend to try too many things at once. Also they make me check out some workflow that for example I have never tried before like I don’t know making song with a chorus, verse, bridge and then trying to reverse their function in song so bridge becomes a chorus or something similar :smiley:
But I agree that I would like to avoid themes focusing on gear because they could make for some people hard to participate (for example because they lack modular gear etc.). And given my GAS I would generally like to focus less on gear ;d
And about participation I like jlmitch5 idea about holding off as this could help avoiding same people playing again at again (I would probably be guilty of that ;d) and give a chance for others to participate. This is also a great oppurtinity for less experienced forum users to play in front of live audience so when the whole corona madness stops they will have some live experience (and recordings) which they then could use to get live gigs.
EDIT: I gave it a little more thought and on the other hand I agree with Gahlord that it was really cool to see the wide variety of styles etc so maybe themes only for smaller events? Or maybe make themes optional so everybody will feel welcome?

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#216

Taking everything into consideration. Thank you for all the great feedback so far.

Another thing to consider: the times of the streams. What did people think about the times we used on v1? There is a lot to consider time zone wise.

Also, suggestions for themes?

I want to add that I would love to continue this post-virus times.

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#217

I do agree! I did a thing recently where I was very focused on making stuff using feedback which is a sort of process theme. Maybe something like that could work in terms of the livestream, guess would depend on what it is. I was more thinking along the lines of making it open to participants regardless of what they use.

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#218

The starting time worked well for me (suppose my time zone is sort of in the middle, so it was early afternoon here). I think an hour or so in either direction would be fine as well. I think the last sets on May 10 were approaching ‘late.’

In a post-virus world, I would tend to prefer Saturday, most due to the stress of the Sunday Scaries.

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#219

it was okay for me (it was 10am-1pm in California) but we only had I think one person from australia participate? Seems like for australian and asian line members it might make it difficult/unwelcoming for them… only solution i can think of would be to have staggered performances (like two separate groups of “set” 6hrs apart) or group months by timezone? Like divide the world in half and alternate months…? Not sure how viable that is really, depends on the distribution of people who want to participate I suppose…

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#220

I agree that ultimately it depends on the demographics of those who are interested…I think most people here are US, UK and Euro, and then we have a few random unicorns :slight_smile: I think with all the locations, it’s not always possible to accommodate everyone perfectly.

My set was 1am my time (I think I was the only Aussie?) which wasn’t too prohibitive and it was the weekend, but just meant I couldn’t hang around for long :stuck_out_tongue:

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