glti.chy insomnia

When all else fails, think glti.ch.

This was the lesson of last night’s insomnia, which led to thoughts about setting up a GLTI.CH Karaoke for this Thursday’s rather impromptu Goldsmiths Art Postgraduate Research Open Studios.

So far, we’ve hooked up spaces thousands of miles and many timezones apart. But on such short notice, with a desire to muck around some more, an internet connection and bandwidth that’re as reliable as one can ask for, and general February winter lazy/hibernation mode set to full blast, wondering what if we take GLTI.CH…

testingtestingtesting: google hangouts (again), skype (again), synchtube, tokbox, tinychat

we’ve been doing quite a bit of testing out of different software recently for GLTI.CH

prior to GK4 between liverpool and london, daniel and i met up to figure out what went wrong with google hangouts during GK3. with its youtube, chat, and multi-user videoing, we thought it might be the holy grail to GLTI.CH karaoke, only to be proven wrong as it automatically muted and canceled out sound every time we attempted to sing together.…