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Ethernet Orchestra NYC show - 12th November 2011, 8-9pm @ O-Town Sound.

This unique A/V performance features myself & Richard Lainhart 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 can listen and view the performance online. Venue details.

To experience audio visual performance online open the following urls in separate browser windows.

Audio http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ethernet-orchestra1
Visual http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html

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Background
During my visit to New York I will be teaming up with long time ensemble collaborator Richard Lainhart and performing together live with members of the online ensemble. Despite numerous networked performances together, this will be the first time we will have met and collaborated in person. The performance will also feature networked live cinema mixing by audiovisual artist Graziano Milano in London.

The online ensemble will feature:
Sydney
Yavuz Uydu – Turkish oud & bendir

Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Hervé Perez – Laptop electronics and Soprano Sax
Web

Ethernet Orchestra A/V excerpts here.

ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference , Atlanta, Georgia, 3-6th November 2011. One of twelve internationally selected papers for presentation at the graduate student symposium and masterclass. More details.

Starting 2nd September I will be embarking on an international conference and performance tour presenting papers on my research and performing with Ethernet Orchestra as well as selected solo performances. More info.

Tour Schedule
5th – DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference) Ningbo, China. Paper presentation and evening performance featuring Ethernet Orchestra in collaboration with local Chinese musicians. Download program for location and times.

15th – ISEA (International Symposium for Electronic Arts) Istanbul, Turkey. Paper presentation at Sabanci University. View details of time and location.

18th – NOISEISTANBUL Arkoada, Istanbul. Solo performance of new indeterminate work traces #1 View details.

25th – Kunstmühle Gallery, Braunschweig, Germany. Ethernet Orchestra radio performance featuring Martin Slawig, Elke Utermöhlen, Yavuz Uydu (Sydney), Chris Vine (Londrina, Brazil). View details.

28th – Limbo @ Grain Barge, Bristol, UK.- Reunion of post jazz collaboration. View details. Listen Limbo music.

30th – Falmouth University (tbc). Ethernet Orchestra performance featuring Martin Slawig, Elke Utermöhlen (Braunschweig, Germany), Yavuz Uydu (Sydney), Chris Vine (Londrina, Brazil).

1st (Oct) -School of Noises Falmouth, UK. Solo performance of traces #1. View details.

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At Swim Two Boys score featured in 3rd International Soundscore & Music Composition Exhibition at Scenofest, Prague, Quadrennial.
I was chuffed to be asked to submit two of my compositions from the score of At Swim Two Boys for this prestigious exhibition including works by Scanner and many other notable composers. It is particularly relevant as Earthfall are currently re-staging the show for the 10th anniversary of Jamie O’Neill’s book, on which it is based.

Exhibit Information

Roger Mills score excerpts

Details on the show and UK tour

Sound Spectrum Networked Performance
Other recent activities include facilitating and participating in a network loop improvisation between students at University of Technology, Sydney and Edith Cowan University, WA for the ‘Sound Spectrum‘ festival, Perth on May 9th. This two state networked performance was broadcast to an audience at the Velvet Lounge, Perth through Internet streaming technologies Nicecast and Ustream. The two ensembles used the enveloping network latency as an acoustic tool to create two collaborative yet indeterminate soundscapes, across 4000 km of Australia.

Documentation and audio

Recordings of the performances have been mastered for a release entitled Macrology on the WAAPA net label Slow Release. Download the entire release with cover from here.

UTS – Bachelor of Sound and Music Design Networked Improvisation
This was followed by another two networked jam sessions during the first year of the Sound and Music Design degree in which I teach. Students were given the opportunity to explore extended instrumental techniques in improvisation, with online members of the Ethernet Orchestra and other international musicians. Employing the real-time platform eJamming, the focus moved away from the indeterminacy of network latency, concentrating instead on synchronous improvisatory dialogues with musicians from different cultures.

It with great sadness that Patrick Simmons referred to in last months post has passed away. Patrick was a well known and loved artist and curator, and his passing is a great loss to us all.

News of recent collaborations include the submission of a drone based composition to Resound, Falmouth 201l by Patrick Simmons, who compiled a series of drone compositions for a work entitled (Un) pleasant overdrones. It was performed on the last day of the festival through roving car stereos picking up patrick’s show. Information on the festival and other collaborating artists with free download from here.

Have been getting some good feedback on the recent Furthernoise “Explorations in Sound, Vol. 4″, which is also getting some good airplay. The cover image and folding sleeve was produced by Neil Jenkins. You can download it with the new issue uploaded yesterday. Download from here.

Good news on getting a paper accepted to ISEA in September, which I am hoping to combine with a trip to the UK as well. Will be the first time I have left Australian shores since i arrived in 2008. How things have changed since then !