telematic events in 2010

April

ResoNations Panel Videoconference

April 9, 2010 / 4:00PM-5:30PM EDT
Presented by the Music Technology Program Lecture Series, Steinhardt School, New York University

An international videoconference on the groundbreaking international telematic music concert for peace, ResoNations. Panelists will make presentations on the ResoNations concert and the ongoing project. Performance highlights will be shown. Local and online international audiences will participate in discussion.

ResoNations was an international telematic music concert for peace November 21, 2009 12:30amGMT performed by twenty-six renowned musicians in five international locations: United Nations Headquarters in New York, University of California San Diego, The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, Queens University Belfast, and Dongguk University in Seoul with support from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Telematic music is real-time performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations. Four new contemporary music works for peace were performed by the composite ensemble: Hope's Dream by Mark Dresser and Sarah Weaver, Disparate Bodies by Pedro Rebelo, Rock, Paper, Scissors by Chris Chafe, and Green-colored Harmony by Jun Kim. The performance took place on high-bandwidth internet with JackTrip audio software developed by Chris Chafe and Access Grid video software developed at Argonne National Laboratory. There were audiences in each location and a world-wide webcast.

ResoNations was part of the annual Innovation Talks Symposia held at the United Nations Headquarters New York by World Association of Former United Nations Internes and Fellows (WAFUNIF), a United Nations Peace Messenger. WAFUNIF Arts For Peace and the Permanent Mission of Romania to the United Nations sponsored the event. Arts for Peace has also worked with artists Mark Dresser and Sarah Weaver as a sponsor of Deep Tones for Peace, another recent telematic music project, and looks forward to further opportunities to support the work of the United Nations through telematic music and technology.

Greeting: Dr. Agnieszka Roginska, Associate Director, Assistant Professor, Music Technology Program, Steinhardt School, New York University
Introductions: Dr. Robert Rowe, Vice-Chair, Director of Music Composition, Steinhardt School, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, New York University
Dean Sally Blount, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Undergraduate College, Advisor to the President and Provost for Global Integration, New York University

Panelists and Audience Locations:

Site 1
New York University, Steinhardt School, Music Technology Program
Public Audience: 35 West 4th Street, 6th Floor Conference Room, New York, New York 10003

Sarah Weaver, Moderator
ResoNations Coordinator, Composer, Performer, United Nations Site Director
Arts for Peace Music and Technology Director, World Association of Former United Nations Internes and Fellows (WAFUNIF)
Graduate Student, Music Technology Program, Steinhardt School, New York University
Dean Leslie
ResoNations United Nations Site Director
Presidential Attaché, Arts for Peace Director, World Association of Former United Nations Internes and Fellows (WAFUNIF)

Frank Dominguez
ResoNations Development
Arts for Peace Development Director, World Association of Former United Nations Internes and Fellows (WAFUNIF)

Pedro Rebelo
ResoNations Composer, Performer, Belfast Site Director
Professor, Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen's University Belfast

Franziska Schroeder
ResoNations Performer, Belfast Site Director
Professor, Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen's University Belfast

Woon Seung Yeo
ResoNations Performer, Technologist, Seoul Site Director
Professor, Audio and Interactive Media (AIM) Lab, Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Republic of Korea

Site 2
University of California San Diego, Calit2 at UCSD
Public Audience: Atkinson Hall, Room 2004, UCSD - La Jolla, California 92093-0037

Mark Dresser
ResoNations Composer, Performer, San Diego Site Director
Dean's Fund for Innovation in Arts and Humanities, University of California, San Diego
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), Professor, University of California, San Diego

Todd Margolis
ResoNations Technologist
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), University of California San Diego

Site 3
Stanford University
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Palo Alto, California

Chris Chafe
ResoNations Coordinator, Composer, Performer, Software Designer, Banff Site Director
iCore Visiting Professor, The Banff Centre
Professor, Director of CCRMA, Stanford University

Site 4
Dongguk University
Musical Arts and Technology (MARTE) Lab, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Jun Kim
ResoNations Composer, Seoul Site Director
Professor, Musical Arts and Technology (MARTE) Lab, Dongguk University

Online Audience Participation:
Multimedia Art Research Centres and Electronic Laboratories (MARCEL) is a permanent high band-width network dedicated to artistic, educational and cultural experimentation, exchange between art and science and collaboration between art and industry with 150 members in 22 countries. Members will view the panel through the MARCEL Access Grid venue and submit questions online.

Public Webcast:
Hosted by the MARCEL Network\

For Full Listing of ResoNations 2009 Musicians, Technologists, and Further Information, View the ResoNations Website

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4/17: Kamal Sabran (Ipoh, Malasia), Dan Godston (Chicago), Bruce Mak (electric guitar), and Michael Staron (upright bass)

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May
5/12: "Jazz Telemotions: A Networked Trio Concert" by Mark Dresser, Myra Melford, and Michael Dessen with media artist John Crawford and scenic designer Victoria Petrovich

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June
6/12: "Inspiraling: Telematic Jazz Explorations"

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July
TBA

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August
TBA

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September

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October

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November

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December


Check soon for more updates. If you know about any upcoming telematic events, please write info about them in the comment section, and this will be updated. Thanks.

audio from recent telematic performance events

April 17th performance event with musicians in Chicago and Malaysia
1st segment, 2nd segment, 3rd segment, 4th segment, 5th segment, 6th segment, 7th segment

AUDIO FROM TELEMATIC PERFORMANCE EVENTS IN 2009

Sonic Bridge 2 (March 23rd)
1st segment, 2nd segment, 3rd segment, 4th segment, 5th segment, 6th segment, 7th segment, 8th segment, 9th segment, 10th segment

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Fourth Annual Chicago Calling event at Brown Rice (October 2nd)
performers included: Jon Godston (soprano saxophone / Chicago), Gregory O'Drobinak — Arc of the Oven / Chicago), Williwaw (amplified ukulele / Glasgow), Steve Dalachinsky (poetry / New York City), Jim Ryan (kalimba / Oakland, Dan Godston (trumpet / Chicago), Michael Staron (bass / Chicago), and Jimmy Bennington (drums / Chicago)
first segment, second segment

CCAF4 performance event -- musicians at WNUR and Mills College (October 8th):
Performers at WNUR included Saalik Ziyad (vocals), Jayve Montgomery (reeds and percussion), Dan Godston (trumpet), Mike Staron (upright bass), and Matt Weston (percussion). Performers at Mills College included Karl A.D. Evangelista (guitar), Eric Glick Rieman (piano, toy piano, celeste, melodica), Curtis McKinney (bass), Lona Kozik (piano), Drew Ceccato (reeds), and Krzysztof Golinski (drumset)
1st segment (7:16), 2nd segment (11:08), 3rd segment (10:11), 4th segment (5:00), 5th segment (7:47), 6th segment (6:33), 7th segment (9:42), 8th segment (11:22), entire audio file (1 hr 9 min)

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Chicago-New Orleans panel discussion (October 11th)

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If you have been involved with a telematic performance event recently, and you'd like to let people know about audio, video, or other kinds of documentation that happened, please comment below and this can be updated with more info and links. Thanks.

Another Language Performing Arts Company

Another Language Performing Arts Company and the University of Utah is searching for dancers to participate in the telematic cinema performance of InterPlay: Event Horizon, choreographed and directed by Elizabeth Miklavcic (Artistic Director). Prospective dancers must be affiliated with an Internet2 institution and have access to an Access Grid facility. The performances will be March 26 - April 04, 2010, with technical and dress rehearsals during March 22 - 25. This project is a celebration of Another Language's 25th anniversary and marks our eighth InterPlay performance.

Please pass this information on to anyone who might have interest. For more information please contact me at jimmy.miklavcic[at]utah.edu or visit www.anotherlanguage.org/interplay

thanks,

Jimmy

Sonic Bridge 2

a telematic performance event
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 (8 p.m. CST / 7 p.m. MST / midnight Buenos Aires)

Hundreds of miles of wall and fence stretch along the U.S.-Mexico border, and the U.S. Immigration Policy is going in a different direction now, as the Obama administration moves forward. Performers at Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery will be part of a telematic performance event which will perpendicularly run through the U.S.-Mexico border wall/fence, in conjunction with sound artists and musicians who live in Tucson, Mexico City, Vera Cruz, and Buenos Aires. Artists in these remote locations will interact with each other in real time. Although people have many different opinions about what should be done about the U.S.-Mexico border/fence and the U.S.’ Immigration Policy, it is a good that ideas and sound can travel freely across borders.

at Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery (Chicago)
Amanda Gutierrez -- laptop
Dan Godston -- trumpet & small instruments
Jayve Mongtomery -- saxophone & percussion
Carlos Cumpian -- poetry
Noe Cuellar -- laptop
Wiliwaw -- amplified ukulele
Ian Hatcher

at KAMP (Tucson):
Glenn Weyant -- Kestrel 920
Steev Hise -- electronics & samples
streaming live at http://kamp.arizona.edu/

in Mexico City:
Kai Kraatz -- Nordlead
Daniel Lara -- FAT BOX
Antonio Dominguez -- video

in Veracruz:
Ernesto Romero -- laptop

in Buenos Aires:
Buenissimo Collective
Valeria Cammano Caamaño
Agustin Genoud
Leonello Zambon
Josefina Zuain
Azucena Losana -- video

Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor
Chicago, IL
$7 suggested donation

Sonic Bridge 2 happens during the week of Sound Megalopolis, in Mexico City.

Click here to visit the Sonic Bridge blog.

audio from Sonic Bridge 2:
1st segment
2nd segment
3rd segment
4th segment
5th segment
6th segment
7th segment
8th segment
9th segment
10th segment

Distributed Audience

I watched the Mark Dresser performance video and really enjoyed the music. The issue that really struck me though was the lack of a distributed audience. We often struggle with this problem in our own performances. I feel that a telematic performance should include, in its process, the development of a distributed audience that shares in the experience. So far, many of the telematic performances that I have seen or read about focus the attention to building an audience at the host site. For example, in Mark Dresser's performance, there seemed to be audience at the main theater and none at the other two sites.

Another Language continues to work on this problem. We see it manifested in several ways. One site of collaborators are graduate students that have the drive and desire to be involved in developing this form but do not have the technical or facility support from their respective department. They must perform in a classroom because the performance spaces do not have the computing or network infrastructure to support their particpation. Other sites utilze adapted visualization labs associated with their institution's high performance computing facilities.

I really would like to see the next phase of telematic performance really focus on distributed audiences. I think this is the only way to increase the attention to this nebulous art form.
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Thanks for your comment. What you saw gave you an inaccurate idea of what was happening. The performance had three local audiences. Also there was an Ichat stream between the three locations. In addition there was the perspective you saw posted on youtube which showed the performance from one vantage point only, the San Diego, space.
We had hoped to create one equally distributed virtual space, but it was beyond our resources at the time. It is a good point, however.
Mark Dresser