A third post in the networked music performance series. Technical latency and institutional infrastructure are only part of the problem. This practice-informed account describes one curriculum’s use of progressive tasks, reflection and portfolios without treating observations as measured learning effects.
A follow-up to the August 2023 latency post. The numbers were fine. The hard part turned out to be everything else: governance, maintenance, invisible labour, and why a technically functional Digital Music Lab can become unusable without sustained stewardship.
We measured end-to-end audio and video latency for LoLa and MVTP across six European research-network links. One-way audio latency ranged from 7.5 to 22.5 ms in these deployments. Route topology and endpoint processing made air distance alone a poor predictor; one firewall comparison found higher loss and buffer instability.