#1 - #6
STREAMCYCLE #1
Rossco Galloway & Mike Kearney
This was StreamCycle's first ever outing. Led by good friend and founder of the Ruby Tuesday Live Sessions Facebook group for singer-songwriters, Rossco Galloway. Everything overheated at the end, but this show proved that the concept worked. Maybe we could even try for a full band next time...
STREAMCYCLE #2
William Douglas & Rossco Galloway
Within 2 weeks we had formed the world's first cyberband with Calum McIntyre on drums and Ewan Gibson on Bass. Performing here to William Douglas' classic 'See-Saw Scene' we'd had to abandon Ewan. His system overloaded to a digital feedback loop which had crashed the whole thing.Â
STREAMCYCLE #3
Daniel McGeever & Alistair McErlain
This stream was pretty special. For the first half, Alistair's video was somehow completely out of sync with his audio. We had to abdandon, troubleshoot, fix and return. For Daniel's set, everything went right, for the first time. It was a magnificent gig.
STREAMCYCLE #4
Toby Mottershead
& Jon McKenzie
By now the team was getting into a bit of a groove and, individually, myself, Calum and Ewan were tweaking our setups, making the audio routing and capture more efficient and generally getting better at our new method of making music. Toby and Jon knocked it out of the park with a great little blues show.
STREAMCYCLE #5
Rossco Galloway & Roberta Pia
A beautiful set from Bob to kick us off. Rossco also joined us again for a full set of bangers, but we had problems with the mix. Essentially each player has control of his or her own level. So, to tweak, you have to go into the stream, wait for everyone to catch up, guesstimate how many Db to adjust each player's level, come out of the stream, wait for everyone to catch up, give the mx directions, and hope that the multiple levels of Facebook/Youtube audio compression along the chain don't wreak havoc.
STREAMCYCLE #6
Mike Kearney
It was finally my turn to try a full band stream. It was also time to integrate our new cyberband member, Paddy Darley on Trombone. Paddy uses a home-made Linux computer. It made things easier and harder at the same time. And of course, now we all knew what Linux meant... Yet more hitches and stressful setups, but we overcame. Every gig felt like a huge success. And it was.