btw, are you talking about video streaming or just audio/radio format? Or both?
- most shows are simply way too long and don't have enough of a benefit-to-cost ratio. i appreciate the sheer novelty of having 10-hour streaming extravaganzas, but now that i've experienced it, i don't think i really need to experience it again in that way. i realized that my attention span can only sustain me for about 4 hours or so, beyond that, my mind kind of burns out.
As a person on the receiving end, I like being able to know that even if I have a busy schedule chances are that with a 10-hour extravaganza I'll be able to see at least 1 performance at some point in the day/night.
- artist delays are kind of a big problem. hopefully there'll be some common policy/understanding as to handling late starts, cutting sets short, etc. one way to mitigate this is to have intermissions every couple of hours.
Yeah. Having artists come on back-to-back with no intermission can lead to some embarrassing delays. I don't personally care about the delays myself, though. I'm on the internet. I have other things I can do, lol.
- maybe the whole streamed show / Lineup Of Artists is fundamentally flawed format? one alternative i had in mind was a "variety show" of shorts, a two-hour format where 2-to-4 active chip people discuss the latest goings-on panel-style over skype. pepper in one or two artist interviews/streamed performances, and small segments like "chipmusic 101" or modding tutorials. basically it would be an amalgamation of shows like TrueStar's NoiseChan, Seaking's Seaglass and those State of the Game starcraft podcasts where players/casters just shoot the breeze in a 5-way split screen window.
That would actually be pretty cool and legit. Kind of like American Band Stand type thing crossed with Tonight Show/SNL/Carson Daly.
- people performing from their homes: some (rightfully) think that it's lame, others see it as a refreshing window into the lives of chip artists. what do you think?
I think it's cool. Live music always has a different feel than recorded stuff, even if it's just streamed directly from home, and I actually sometimes prefer the live performances over the studio recordings. Streaming parties with a line-up of artists performing from home are pretty cool, as it's not a live stream of a live concert, but a live streamed concert in and of itself, you know? It's like, instead of "Vegan Eggs", I think of it as "Fried Tofu".>_>
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I watch youtube videos of people performing at home, so *shrug*. I don't see anything wrong with it, though i can see the la-... I mean uncool element of it.
I just feel like, live streams don't get enough attendance, though.
Edit: I feel like home streamed shows could be a little more engaging, though. Dramatic lighting effects and stuff.
Edit edit: My favorite live streamed shows are the ones in which the camera is in the back of the venue so that at least some of the crowd can be seen. It feels more immersive that way.
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