V-Jam consists of an Apple iMac Computer, 5 USB controllers, speakers and Impromptu software. It is a collaborative music making environmenet that generates music in real time so that users can jam-improvise with bass, drums, harmony and solo synthesiser sounds and they can process video from the built in camera. The improvisations can then be captured and stored for replaying.

Over the past 2 months we have been trialling V-Jam with KYC and Edmund Rice outreach at Caboolture with youth who developed new electronic works and beta tested the the new software hardware.

In October 2007 School Holidays Caboolture Shire Library hosted a series of V-Jam workshops with children from 8-14 years of age working together to produce some new DJ-VJ works.

V-Jam is a collaborative music making device using Apple computers and Impromptu software developed by Andrew Sorensen funded by the Australasian CRC for Interactive Design (ACID) and an Institute of Creative Industries Innovations grant.

Click more to listen to some of the childrens' Amazing DJ-VJ Electronic improvisational performances.

jam2jam was used in the PowerKidz school holiday program run by creACTIVE at the Brisbane Powerhouse Center for Performing Arts, in Brisbane, Australia during June of 2007. One of the great things about these workshops was the way in which parents and children engaged with music making using jam2jam.