A musical collaboration project for disconnected performers.
Rend-o-matic is a Call for Code with The Linux Foundation Project created by developers at IBM. Rend-o-matic is the technology that powers the Choirless platform.
Choirless is a musical collaboration platform built to enter the Call for Code 2020 global competition. It allows music groups to create a video wall recording of a piece of music, where all of the individual submissions are captured separately on the performers' phone, tablet or laptop.
Choirless came about during the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, as countries went into lockdown and social-distancing prevented choirs, bands and other musical ensembles from meeting and performing in person. Video meeting platforms such as Zoom and Webex proved useless for live collaboration because of the network latency and the audio being optimised for speech.
Choirless aims to make it very easy for choir leaders to create songs made out of several parts (e.g. alto, tenor, soprano) and to organise choir members to provide renditions of a part. All of the contributed videos are stitched together into a video wall with no special equipment and without employing costly and time-consuming video editing software.
Rend-o-matic is a Call for Code® with The Linux Foundation project that features a set of core Choirless platform components.
Start by reading this Rend-o-matic overview which describes the architecture and projects. We are in the process of updating the documentation for deploying the rendering capabilities locally or on IBM Cloud Functions.
You are also welcome to join our Slack in the #rend-o-matic channel for getting to know the community and discussing issues in real-time, including the creation of a network for your region.
Please read our contributing guidelines for details of how you can get involved, and Code of Conduct for information about how to participate.
- The Choirless team - Initial work - Choirless
- Matt Hamilton
- Sean Tracey
- Glynn Bird
This project is licensed under the MIT License, unless otherwise stated. Separate third party code objects invoked within this code pattern are licensed by their respective providers pursuant to their own separate licenses. Contributions are subject to the Developer Certificate of Origin, Version 1.1 (DCO) and the MIT License.