Local Pop Producer Matt Squire's Next Collaboration May Be With the Military

His software is making online collaboration much easier

If you’ve ever tried to sing “Happy Birthday” with a bunch of people over Zoom, you’ve probably experienced latency. That’s the technical name for the delay that occurs between you and the others on the call, causing cacophony. Latency makes real-time online musical collaboration almost impossible, which is why during the pandemic there were few virtual concerts in which the artists appeared in separate windows.

Squire’s fix is a digital platform that allows musicians to play with one another from afar by measuring the delay on each user’s connection and then syncing all the participants accordingly. It’s a bit hard to explain, but the concept works so well that he decided to market it to the public, calling it Digital Conductor. The tech can also be used for performances in front of a digital audience.

But things got more interesting in early 2021, when Squire served as a judge at Spookstock, an annual battle of the bands that raises money for theWhile chatting with other people at the event, Squire learned that members of the military and intelligence communities are frustrated by high latency in communications, too—it’s just that their problems tend to involve, say, raids on buildings in locations outside the US.

One morning, we stopped by Squire’s studio to try out the tech. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to wrangle any far-flung musical collaborators at that hour, so we plugged in a guitar and played along with recorded music being streamed over the internet from a different computer. Though it took a minute to get used to, it worked surprisingly smoothly—no “Happy Birthday” lag at all.

Whether the spook community will adopt the idea remains to be seen, but musicians are enthusiastic. Squire says that after sessions, he often hears what he considers a high compliment: They didn’t notice it. “You know when you’re about to go onstage and you get butterflies because anything could happen? You get that on our live streams,” he says. “The audience feels it, too.”

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