Tele-Musical Improvisation: Remote Cross Cultural Engagement Through Networked Internet Audio Platforms.
Ethernet Orchestra is the research project of Roger Mills at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.
It is an investigation of improvisation in networked audio platforms, examining how platform characteristics and network conditions influence the process of collective improvisation and the approaches musicians are employing to negotiate dialogical networked collaborations.
Collaborations may involve any number of musicians determined on a project by project basis, which may include live networked gallery performance or discreet online improvisatory sessions. It is also envisaged that a body of works will be recorded not only for the purpose of analysis, but for the compilation of an eventual label release, of which all participants will be equally recognised for their creative contributions.
Through the praxis of diverse cultures in collaboration, it is hoped that new approaches to networked improvisation will be given the space and time to develop in a framework of innovation and experimentation.
Recent paper presentation at NIME++2010 Dislocated Sound: A Survey of Improvisation in Networked Audio Platforms pdf can be downloaded from here.
Project Information Ethernet Orchestra Blog
"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 4.
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 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 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)