Isn't this more or less how Powerbooks uplugged are performing? Admittedly
no IRC is involved but if you can send your chat over OSC it may not be
needed?
2008/9/19 AlgoMantra <algomantra_at_gmail.com>
> Um, has anybody toyed with the idea of building an IRC bot that
> converts the chat commands into locally executed audio synthesis
> commands? This is all hypothetical, of course.
>
> You log in, you type commands as if you're chatting, and users perceive
> the change together because they can hear it. The bot is using the chat
> commands to drive audio synthesis locally on the client.
>
> Everybody hears the same sound over the group of users and lurkers.
> It's a bit like editing the Wikipedia, except you're composing music.
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