So, chatroulette is pretty freaky. I've been avoiding it for a long while, uncomfortable with suddenly being webcam-to-webcam with random people all over the world and essentially channel surfing through them. Chatroulette is social exposure without rules- everyone is anonymous and instantaneous and rejectable. Plus, there's a fair number of perverts who lurk around on the site. It's intimidating.
But I figured that I would improvise on the piano while chatrouletting- this would make it less confrontational because I would be focused on the music rather than on the computer screen. I thought I could make a bit of a project out of it too. This video of a guy singing and improvising on chatroulette has been circulating all over facebook and twitter lately, and I figured that if I made a decent video and gave it the right tags, it might start picking up a lot of views too.
So I sat down at a piano, balanced my laptop precariously on a music stand, and started playing. I didn't really watch the screen or 'next' anyone, I just performed and let chatroulette record me.
But I recorded a video of the screen to watch afterward. I think this graph summarizes things accurately:
Yeah.
So I scrapped the video. Not only would it require a lot of visual censoring, but the sound quality itself was terrible- my piano playing turned into a chromatic garble. Plus, I was set up inside of a sound-proof room and the wifi signal was tragic.
I'm not sure if jamming at the piano is a very authentic way to use chatroulette anyways. Performance is important, but so is interaction. I'll have to think of something else.
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