Open Source Orchestra · the callsWeekly call #2 — the whole thing, in the open

🎙️ Open Recording #2 — stream, mp3, chapters, transcript, and the consent protocol →

🎙️ Recorded the way we’d want to be recorded. The notetakers entered the room first — Fireflies was our first guest, before any human. Consent was asked out loud at the top, on the recording itself, so the recording carries its own permission. The host hit record last. Nothing is cut; everyone on the call said yes before this went public. ⬇️ download the mp3 (1h43, 95 MB)

Tuesday 27 October 2026 · 21:36 IST · 1 h 43 min. Ten musicians across Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Alaska and Chiang Mai, deciding how four days of music on the floor of Devcon 8 will breathe. At 1:33 we stopped talking and played.

🎙️ Open Recording #2 — stream, mp3, chapters, transcript, and the consent protocol →

Recorded and published with the consent of everyone on the call (asked at 00:06, confirmed at 00:35 and 01:02). It's not a stage — it's a circle on the floor. 🎻

📼 Permanent, account-free copy on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/oso-weekly-call-2-2026-10-27 — video 540p · 720p · mp3 (CC BY 4.0 — performers keep their own rights).

If you only have ten minutes

1. 14:03What the sanctuary isan open circle on the ground floor — not a stage, not a festival; stewards keep it welcoming and continuous
2. 32:11Continuous flowno "guitar center" demos — pass the heartbeat around, people sing on top of it; DJs and instruments together after 4 pm
3. 43:18India × the Westclassical, raag, devotional, Gujarati, Marathi, Bhangra — Nidhi, Jaydeep, Sounya, Devang, Aakash map the opening
4. 56:14The cultural floormusic audible beside the talks without disrupting them; louder after four
5. 1:14:04Sound check — Mon Nov 2gear, volume for the neighbours, daytime audible but gentle
6. 1:16:01Stewardsanyone in the group can register as steward, collect wristbands early
7. 1:33:18The jam 🎹🎤Devang on keys through a phone · Sounya's original from Delhi · Nidhi classical · Jaydeep's Gujarati song

Words worth keeping

"As long as we can keep the heartbeat going of the space the entire time — pass the heartbeat around, and people are singing on top of it — that's what we keep on the ground the whole time."Shaka, 32:11

"The open source orchestra is already all of ours. No one owns it. That's why it's a circle and not a stage."Shaka, 10:12 · 15:37

"It's going to be amazing having core classical Indian music, songs from different states of India, with the music from the West — taking all of it together and making something new."Nidhi, 43:18

"In India we have these get-togethers where families come together at festivals and everyone starts to sing. I think of it at a bigger scale — all the Indians and all the people from the West, singing with us together."Aakash, 56:14

What we settled