“It’s like a lab,” says baritone saxophonist Cath Roberts in her interview with Daniel Spicer in The Wire 454 as she discusses her group project Sloth Racket. “I’m using it to play around with composition and different methods, so a touring, working band is really a brilliant place to introduce new stuff. It’s not like a scratch project or a thing that’s just coming together once. It’s a constant thing and it develops its own voice and vibe over the years.”

“...the real buzz is in collective music-making in the moment”, Roberts continues. “I like the hive mind. The group does the arranging and makes it into an actual piece of music. I’m just setting something up and then we’re going to explore it and make something of it and I don’t know what that is.”

Here Roberts shares a server’s ear recording of the live audio stream from Sloth Racket's Arts Council funded research and development project A Room Inside The Internet. During lockdown from November 2020 to March 2021, the band held monthly online rehearsals using JackTrip, working on new music. The five band members were all in different locations and connected to a central server, our room inside the internet. This performance took place on 29 March 2021 and features Roberts composing and playing baritone saxophone, Sam Andreae on alto saxophone, Anton Hunter playing guitar, Seth Bennett on double bass, Johnny Hunter on drums with Tom Ward behind the server build.