Tele- Improvisation: Cross Cultural Engagement in Networked Improvisation.
Ethernet Orchestra
Ethernet Orchestra is an Internet based networked music ensemble exploring cross-cultural improvisatory collaboration through telematic audio platforms. As a research project, it is an investigation of intercultural creative cognition and learning in networked improvisation. Collaborations involve discreet online improvisation sessions and performances at gallery/theatre events.
Project website
Recent live performances include collocated musicians performing with the online ensemble at Kunstmuhle Gallery, Brausnchweig, Germany, O-Town Sound, New York and Bon Marche Studio, University of Technology, Sydney. Listen to excerpt.
Through the praxis of diverse cultures in collaboration, new approaches to networked improvisation are being given the space and time to develop in a framework of innovation and experimentation.
Recent pilot study evaluations have been presented DRHA conference, 4-7th September 2011 at the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus, China. Paper presentation included a live networked performance featuring Chinese Guzheng musicians Tao Han and Mao Danheng playing with the Ethernet Orchestra. Unfortunately the performance was abandoned due to Internet access problems resulting in a live collocated improvisation. Listen to exerpt.
ISEA2011 - Paper presentation, 15th September 17:00-18:40 Sabanci Centre Room 4, Sabanci University, Istanbul. ISEA conference and festival ran concurrently to the Istanbul Biennale. View paper.
ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference , Atlanta, Georgia, 3-6th November 2011. One of twelve selected papers for presentation at the graduate student symposium. More details.
Guest Lectrure 11th November 2011, Pauline Oliveros Doctoral Reserach Group, Rensselaer Polytecnic, Albany.
Ethernet Orchestra NYC show - 12th November 2011, O-TOWN SOUND. This unique A/V performance featured Richard Lainhart, Roger Mills performing in a one off live event with Yavuz Uydu (AU) and Hervé Perez (UK). Networked live cinema mixing by Graziano Milano in the online A/V interface VisitorsStudio. Remote listeners experienced the audio visual performance online. Details here.
Previous paper presentations and performances include NIME++2010 Dislocated Sound: A Survey of Improvisation in Networked Audio Platforms pdf can be downloaded from here.
5th International Conference on Multimodality 2010, University of Technology, Sydney - Paper presentation and live improvised performance with Prof. Theo van Leeuwen.
Link to blog for ongoing updates and mp3 examples of project performances.
"Distant Presences" - Live Networked A/V Performance
Sunday Night At The Movies, FBi Radio 94.5 FM Sydney and Visitors Studio.
Sunday 20th June 9-10 pm (Sydney) 12-1 pm (UK) 1-2pm (Central Europe) 8-9 am (Londrina, Brazil).
"Distant Presences" is an improvised sound work which reflects the nature and aesthetic of the ensembles dispersed interaction. As divergent musical cultures meet in improvisation, the work is a meditation on the multifarious nature of location and being. It forms part of an ongoing series of networked improvisations curated by Furthernoise.org for "Explorations in Sound" Vol 5.
Featuring Live Performances from:
Sydney, Australia.
Bukhchuluun Ganburged (Mongolian Horse fiddle and throat singing)
Yavuz Uydu (Turkish Oud and Bendir)
Roger Mills (Processed Trumpets)
Londrina, Brazil - Chris Vine (Guitar)
Braunschweig, Germany – Martin Slawig (Laptop Electronics and Max/MSP processing)
VJ's
London, United Kingdom - Graziano Milano.
Munich, Germany - Helen Varley Jamieson.
Sydney, Australia - Neil Jenkins.
Thanks to FBi Radio, Sydney and Brooke Olsen at Sunday Night at The Movies.
Live at NIME++2010
Live Networked Performance
Bon Marche Studio, University of Technology, Sydney, 17th June, 2010.
Featuring:
Sydney.
Bukhchuluun Ganburged (Mongolian horse fiddle and throat singing)
Roger Mills (Processed trumpets)
Braunschweig, Germany.
Martin Slawig (Laptop electronics and Max/MSP processing)
Ethernet Orchestra Ensemble Live @ Refraction
University of Technology Sydney, 2nd September 2009.
Networked improvisation featuring:
Sydney, Australia.
Roger Mills (Processed Trumpet and Moog)
Yauvz Uydu (Oud & Bendir)
Oslo, Norway.
Mark Francombe (Processed Guitar)