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Proximity, intimacy & network design in Internet streaming media related distributed improvisation
This page contains a presentation delivered to the third Music and Machines conference hosted by Culture Lab and the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University. A transcript of the conference paper can be downloaded [click here] alongside a series of slides [click here]. Audio-Video clips can also be viewed by clicking on the links under the images. The paper focuses on the activities of musicians and researchers who are exploring the potential of both Internet and next generation Internet (Internet 2) platforms for musical performance. A number of such explorations are designed to connect and/ or host multiple points of improvised musical performance activities in a modularly distributed organisation. Positioning improvised musical performance in relationship to the Internet proposes a number of issues, which include geo-spatial configuration and temporal acoustic ecology. Formulating a common environment for musical activity around this infrastructure exposes inherent relationships between spatial and acoustic concerns in network design and notions of proximity and intimacy within musical performance practices. This paper compares issues found in Internet based streaming media network design with frameworks for distributed improvised musical performance. Three specific improvised performances, which were conducted in such network spaces, are used as models to discuss relationships between relative sites of musical performers (or sites of musical activity) and aesthetic considerations of intimacy within distributed musical improvisation. The paper concludes with a proposition that proximity relationships in this type of musical performance can be more acutely aesthetically described in terms of intimacy between performers, expressed through the distribution of media streams.
QuickTime 6 or more recent is required to view the audio-video examples. Supported by Norwich School of Art & Design, Arts Council East & n0media. Performances are the collective artistic property of the collaborating artists.
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