ACID network Jamming developers Thorin Kerr and Andrew Brown have successfully prototyped the first OLPC version of jam2jam. Basing the design on jam2jam running on Macintosh computers this version will incorporate the generative and collaborative features of the systems with an emphasis on collaborative performance. Network Jamming project leader Steve Dillon is particularly excited about the possibilities of jam2jam as a network performance medium in these communities. Jam2jam has been trialled in Indigenous communities in Urban communities and the creative, innovative and unexpected applications that have come from these trials have inspired many of the exciting developments in the software.

Collaborative Music Jamming

The jam2jam activity allows users to make music on the laptop.

Music is generated by jam2jam and by dragging around instrument icons you can change the music as you like.

jam2jam was developed by the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design

See jam2jam.com for an idea of where this is going! The current longer-standing version has been developed for the Mac (with video background, live or stored, photoreel backgrounds, and various export formats).

The jam2jam xo activity for the OLPC computer can be downloaded here.