Sonorities
Festival of Contemporary Music
sounding/the/net
4th-7th November 2010
Listen the following events live (UK Time):
Thursday
4 November - 19:30
NetCoMeDia
Sonic Arts Research Centre
European
Bridges Ensemble:
Adam Siska; 185
John Cage/Georg Hajdu: Radio Music
Fredrik Olofsson: the choir, the chaos
Johannes Kretz: Aria
Johannes Kretz: Encore
Adagio
pour l'absence - Patricia Alessandrini
Performed
by Franziska Schroeder and Steven Davis (Belfast),
Clemens FrŸhstŸck, Elisabeth Harnik
and Summerer Reinhard
(Graz), and Carola Schaal, Stefen Weinzierl and Turo Grolimund (Hamburg).
Packet Loss: A solo-duet for
Keyboard, Network, and Disklavier - Rob King
(Visuals), Pierre Proske (Piano, Digital Audio)
The European Bridges Ensemble is an Internet and network music performance
group composed of five performers: Kai Niggemann (MŸnster,
Germany), çd‡m Siska (Budapest, Hungary), Johannes Kretz
(Vienna, Austria), Andrea Szigetv‡ri (Dunakeszi, Hungary), Ivana Ognjanović (Belgrade, Serbia), the conductor and
software designer Georg Hajdu (Hamburg, Germany), and video artist
Stewart Collinson (Lincoln,
England). Using the term ÔbridgesÕ
as a metaphor, the Ensemble attempts to bridge cultures, regions, locations and
individuals, each with their specific history. Particularly, Europe with its historical
and ethnic diversity has repeatedly gone through massive changes separating and
reuniting people often living in close vicinity. The aim is to further explore
the potential of taking participating musicians and artists out of their political
and social isolation by creating virtual communities of like-minded artists
united by their creativity and mutual interests.
Packet Loss: A solo-duet for Keyboard,
Network, and Disklavier - Rob King, Pierre Proske
In the
current age, it is easy to take for granted the ease and speed with which we
can communicate with others around the world. Where once one needed to expend
significant amounts of time or energy to get a message around the world, now
with digital networks such communication is instant and nearly effortless.
Packet Loss attempts to rework the architecture of the network so that
long-distance communication requires real physical effort. In this piece, a
single network connection is constructed as a physically modelled virtual
space, with each of the network hops between the two end points represented as
membranes that must be penetrated to get from one end to the other. A piano
played at one end creates data packets within the virtual space, which are
propelled towards the remote end of the networked space based on the strength
of the note played. Not all of the packets will make it through to the other
end; we can only hear their attempts at passing through the network membranes
echoing through the space. When a packet does make it through however, we can
finally hear it as a real note played on the Disklavier. All the while, the network space
becomes a graveyard of lost packets, and data that didn't make it.
Friday 5
November - 19:30
Net 20th
Century
Sonic Arts Research Centre
A
Pierre, dell'azzurro silenzio
inquietum
- Luigi Nono
Five -
John Cage
Music
for Pure Waves Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums - Alvin Lucier
December
1952 - Earl Brown
The 20th century has provided radical
explorations of music through a reinvention of its language and culture. This
programme celebrates key 20th century works, which represent
challenging and disruptive approaches to music by composers such as Luigi Nono, Earl Brown, Alvin Lucier
and John Cage.
The works have been adapted for performance in a network
context in which an ensemble distributed amongst three sites proposes new forms
of interaction and engagement between performers and audiences. Performers
include Carin Levine, Franziska
Schroeder and Justin Yang (Belfast), Clemens FrŸstŸck,
Elisabeth Harnik and Peter Plessas
(Graz) and Carola Schaal, Stefan
Weinzierl and Sofia Borges (Hamburg).
Saturday
6 November - 20:00
NetPLAY
Sonic Arts Research Centre
Renditions
– Alain Renaud / Curtis McKinney
A man, A
Mark, Amen – Felipe Hickmann / Caetano Galindo
Netgraph – Pedro Rebelo
Webwork I – Justin Yang
This programme features four newly commissioned
network-centric works, which explore the role of live computer graphics for
rendering interaction and telepresence. Visualisation
and real-time notation is used to provide musical structures and interactions
across the network. Performers include Franziska
Schroeder, Gascia Ouzounian,
Evan Parker, Pedro Rebelo (Belfast), Clemens FrŸhstŸck, Christian Polheimer,
Andrea Molnar and Elisabeth Harnik (Graz) and Carola Schaal and John Eckhardt (Hamburg).