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Karaoke Multicast of Handel's Messiah
- To: burgessj@washpost.com (Burgess John)
- Subject: Karaoke Multicast of Handel's Messiah
- From: Carl Malamud <carl>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 13:33:04 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <2EFB3D9D@smtpgate.washpost.com> from "Burgess, John" at Dec 23, 94 01:03:00 pm
- Organization: Internet Multicasting Service
The Internet Multicasting Service, in conjunction with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to present a karaoke multicast of Handel's Messiah as part of its holiday celebration at http://north.pole.org/.
On Friday, December 23, a live multicast from the Kennedy Center of the annual Messiah Sing-Along will take place. The Kennedy Center Concert Hall is linked to the IMS Studios on Capitol Hill. From there, a live audio stream will be sent out around the world using the multicast backbone.
In addition to audio, IMS will use "whiteboard" a tool that allows users around the world to share a "drawing space," a window on a computer where writing by one person shows up on a window in everybody else's computer who is a part of that conference. The whiteboard tool, developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory by researcher Van Jacobson, will be used to import the oratorio and then draw a bouncing ball over the words as they are sung ... karaoke Messiah!
In addition to audio and whiteboard, there is a World Wide Web server that contains the program guide. The program guide has information about the conductors and soloists, about the Kennedy Center staff, and about Handel. In all these descriptive paragraphs, key words are underlined and linked to relevant Internet resources.
For example, in the essay about Handel, the word Domenico Scarlatti is linked to a computer in the Netherlands that the music (both sheet music and audio recordings) of keyboard exercises by Scarlatti. The word "opera" links to a popular Opera server at Stanford university and the word "instrument" links to a Japanese student's pages called the "Renaissance Consort" which allows people to learn about different instruments and how they sound.
The Karaoke Multicast of Handel's Messiah is part of the Christmas programming at the Internet Multicasting Service. Other features include a digital christmas tree you can download and ornaments you can "paste" on the tree. The tree is a picture of the National Christmas Tree and the service features the "first ever first cat ornament" featuring Socks the Cat.
The North.Pole.Org server gained instant popularity on the Internet because of its charity campaign to raise $46,000 for local charities, based on donations by corporations whenever a person on the Internet "visits" a page describing a particular charity. The process got a bit out of control when a rumor circulated on the network that the donations were unlimited and people tried to "help" by sending mailbombs to Santa. In just a few days, over 300,000 messages were launched against Santa Claus. "Please don't spam Santa" cries went out throughout the Internet and the naughty list expanded by a few megabytes.
Contacts:
Carl Malamud, Internet Multicasting Service, carl@radio.com Scott Stoner, Kennedy Center Education Department
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