I loved this when I learned it at San Francisco State University. I loved folk dancing and I only had my one best friend who agreed to take Folk Dancing, even though it was only one college credit. One of the best things I got out of college back in the days before it was all about indoctrinating young people into anti-American socialists, especially the girls who now don't even believe they are women at all but just non-men.
What a nice tune -we play another one,untitled, for a regular Breton dance session in Falmouth and will enjoy trying tbis one for a change. Good instruction .
- Splendid to see dance calling done via RU-vid. Fabulous! - You've pioneered enabling anyone in the world to hold a dance with a caller. Callers are not easy to find, or pay. =) - The voice needs to be clearer though. - Imagine... I used to busk (concertina, bluegrass banjo, guitar) every Saturday, sometimes encouraging people to dance, which they did. But I couldn't easily play, call and socialize all at once. I'd explain, or teach one of them, without music, first. Then concentrate on playing while they struggled away. - I had a Bluetooth speaker I used for karaoke of songs I didn't know. Your vid now enables calling dances, any time, anywhere, street, ship deck, beach, 2am or 5am dawn after all nighter, etc. - I'm fascinated that you achieved reasonable synchronized playing via web-chat. Presumably you're in the same city, but even so, I'd love to know how far the signals from each camera and mic had to go before being heard by the other players. - Apparently the 'latency' (delay) has to be less than about 30ms to be 'okay', and ideally less than 10ms. For example, the speed of light across the USA would impose about 30ms, even ignoring any equipment-caused delays like regeneration of a too-weak signal.
As with most of our videos, the musicians here each recorded their parts separately while listening to a seed track that one of them had created in advance. The mixing and video editing was done later, before passing the finished piece to the caller. One of the problems with creating this way is that we are very dependent on the equipment and space that the performers have at home. In this case the call was recorded in a very hard (echoing) room with a microphone that was not really sensitive enough.
That was quite lovely! Such creativity and great editing! I got the invite and love the schottis, but did not participate. It gave me great joy. however, to see the delightful results. I especially liked the group with the rakes and brooms. A big "thank you" to all the contributors and collaborators - well done!
Oh to be contra dancing - when once more, only the brilliant pace of wonderful music such as this - can remain infectious. Alan on every occasion comes out with ace instrumentalists.
