The Loop (2011)
The Loop explores the possibilities of co-located performance, decentralized composition, and the acoustics of network. This performance begins with a brief improvisation presenting acoustic sources to excite the network. This material is shared, transformed, and reintroduced into the composition. This process continues through successive generations until a predetermined time or a point at which the composition naturally concludes. The result is an integrated meta-instrument and an emergent composition, with no one artist being the sole performer or composer. Remote participants are represented locally by a mono speaker enabling the audiences to hear the transformation of audio through the networked instrument.
Recorded at:
11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 30 May - 1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway.
Crossovers (2009)
Crossovers is a multichannel structured networked improvisation for two dislocated performers. A graphic score indicates the location of the performers in each space and allows them to interact based on their physical location within the distributed virtual and physical spaces. The presence of the network and the two acoustically distinct spaces captured as ambisonic streams enhance the sonic space in which the performers interact.
Locations: Stanford University, Queen's University Belfast.
Divertimento Ritmico - Net vs. Net (2007)
This piece is a structured improvisation that explores multi-channel feedback delays on the network. The delay path between Stanford (California, USA) and SARC (Belfast, Ireland) is used as a variable feedback comb filter for each of the four channels. The rhythmic meter of the piece follows this delay path as a way of synchronization / a-synchronization between the two performers. Echoes move on a space embedded on the network path. A custom visualization tool shows the activity of the musicians on each location and also cues the different parts of the piece. We use Jacktrip, SuperCollider, Processing and The Network.