[sdiy] Can my sequencer send emails ?

[yaron eshkar]

Hi,

Rane have this really cool DSP system based on Ethernet.
I ordered thier free catalog, kinda makes me drool hehe...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jbv" <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Can my sequencer send emails ?


> Hi all,
> 
> Behind this weird question hides a very serious one...
> 
> For quite some time, I've been considering the chips
> made by Ubicom (www.ubicom.com - who also
> market the Scenix uCs) that implement internet
> protocols such as http, smtp...
> And I was wondering : could musical gear (analog
> or digital) benefit from that technology in any way ?
> 
> The first applications that come to mind is remote
> maintenance and automatic software upgrade...
> But as for musical applications / performances per se,
> I'm curious to know what kind of weird ideas can
> cross your minds...
> For instance, what about various units (sequencers,
> modulars, FX...) spread around the world and connected
> via the net, and exchanging data / patterns in realtime, and
> JAMMING together...
> What about distributed musical ressources aiming at bigger
> musical tasks that can't be handled by 1 musician / home
> studio alone (a bit like the use of screensavers by the SETI
> program)...
> What about unexpected behaviours emerging from this
> interconnection of gear, like emerging behaviours in artificial
> life studies...
> 
> Of course, nothing mystical in the above...
> Just another crazy idea to entertain this list...
> 
> JB
> 
>