Livestreams

Live performance streamed over the Internet usually using the open source Open Broadcasting System (OBS).

Our performances are made up of sets broken down into solo and group jams. (see The Satellite Of Love Livestreams and open rehearsals and the archived The Concept Mixtape Streams on Twitter.)

Guidelines

• We recommend a small cheap laptop to be used as a single use machine for OBS without visual effects, to be used as a safety net against buffer underruns, latency etc. If visual effects on a second obs machine should lag for whatever reason the audio remains intact.
• We mainly use Luma key as opposed to green screen to create of main visual effects.
• We use OBS layers to add scrolling text for the News tickertapes.
• The discipline is in creating a LIVE environment, a minimum set of virtual instruments are used to ensure CPU is kept smooth with no dropouts latency .
• A controller per virtual instrument is recommended.
• We use mostly outboard gear: drum machines and synths, the Ableton Push, Ovox for vocal effects (with everyone wearing headphones- since we mostly can't sing) and Wavey Lines, a Eurorack-based glitch machine.

Streaming Services

• Twitch
• Bandcamp
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Youtube