February 2nd, 2012
Screenshot VisitorsStudio, by Graziano Milano
Distant Presences 3 is the third in a trilogy of live networked A/V performances by the Ethernet Orchestra, recorded in November 2011. It features Richard Lainhart (Buchla Contiumm) and Roger Mills (processed trumpet) live @ O-Town Sound, New York, Hervé Perez (Sax & electronics) in Sheffield, UK and live cinema artist Graziano Milano, London.
The performance followed paper presentation by Roger Mills at ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Atlanta November 4-6, and a guest lecture at Pauline Oliveros’ doctoral research group on 11th November at Rensselaer Polytechnic, Albany.
Richard Lainhart passed away on the 30th December 2011. Our hearts go out to Richards wife, Caroline Meyers and we send our condolences and best wishes for the memorial concert on 4th March.
December 31st, 2011
RIP Richard Lainhart
On behalf of all of the Ethernet Orchestra, it is with sadness that we reflect on the death of our fellow networked collaborator and musical virtuoso Richard Lainhart, who passed away yesterday 30th December, 2011.
Having worked with him over the years, and then finally meeting him in person last month for the New York show, I personally feel both a sense of loss but also fortune that I was blessed with the opportunity to share his company during the week that I stayed with him and his wife Caroline.
Last night, Martin, Elke and I were looking back on the great performances the ensemble did did this year, and the wonderful experience of the radio feature, which is now all the more poignant in that it unknowingly captured a part of our history that will never be repeated.
As evidenced by the hundreds of obituaries and condolences left on his facebook page, he was deeply respected among a large cross genre musical community and all those that knew him.
RIP Richard, your passion and generosity touched many of us and your music will continue your presence in our lives.
Roger
December 2nd, 2011
Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany is broadcasting a radio feature on Ethernet Orchestra through their DEGEM web radio from today. The two hour program documents our performances over the last two years and contains interviews with the musicians speaking about their experiences of working with the project and the different aspects of the telematic improvisatory music making. Thanks to radio journalist Mirko Heinemann and blackhole-factory for supporting it.
Access broadcast and ZKM HERE.
The program is broadcast twice a day for a month and can be listened to a different times each day. It is scheduled within program block E.
Monday: 10am + 10pm
Tuesday: 8am + 8pm
Wednesday: 6am + 6pm
Thursday: 4am + 4pm
Friday: 2am + 2pm
Saturday: 0am and 0pm
Sunday: 6am + 6pm
The time is CET Central European Time == UTC + 1 hour
November 26th, 2011
18th November, 2011 – Final Ethernet Orchestra performance for 2011 at Bon Marche Studio, Harris St, Sydney.
Featuring live in Sydney
Roger Mills – processed trumpets
Shaun Premnath – Tabla
Yavuz Uydu – Oud & Bendir
Braunschweig, Germany
Martin Slawig – Percussion / Max/MSP processing
Sheffield, UK
Hervé Perez – Sax & Electronics
The evening also featured performances by Pedro Rebello & Ben Carey.
Listen to audio excerpt
October 29th, 2011
Ethernet Orchestra NYC show - 12th November 2011, 8-9pm @ O-Town Sound.
This unique A/V performance features Richard Lainhart, Roger Mills 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
Find your own timezone here.
Background
During his visit to New York, Roger Mills will be teaming up with long time ensemble collaborator Richard Lainhart and they will be performing together live with members of the online ensemble. Despite numerous networked performances together, this will be the first time the pair 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.
September 25th, 2011
2pm CET
10pm Sydney
8am Montreal & New York
Listen http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ethernet-orchestra
September 24th, 2011
Ethernet Orchestra will be improvising online Saturday 24th for two hours from 2pm CET, 1pm GMT and 8am in New York and Montreal.
Sunday 25th live gallery performance at Kunstmuhle, Braunschweig Germany. 2pm CET, 1pm GMT and 8am in New York and Montreal.
Both performances are being streamed at http://www.ustream.tv/user/blackhole-factory
Performers include
Peyman Sayyadi, Montreal
Richard Lainhart New York
Martin Slawig, Elke Utermöhlen, Roger Mills Braunschweig, Germany
Yavuz Uydu, Sydney
Chris Vine, Londrina Brazil
These sessions are being recorded for an album release and radio feature by ZKM’s DGEM Webradio.
August 14th, 2011
From September to November 2011, Ethernet Orchestra will embark on an international tour in which members of the ensemble will perform locally and remotely at a range of events incorporating live musicians in each location.
Each performance will feature local musicians improvising with members of the online ensemble from locations such as Sydney, Brazil, China, Turkey, Germany, UK and the United State. The ensemble features a diverse range of instruments including Turkish oud & bendir, Mongolian horse fiddle and throat singing, guitar, trumpet, voice and electronic processing. Instrumentalists will perform in different combinations over the tour as local circumstances provide.
Selected events include conference paper presentations examining intercultural cognition and perception in telematic improvisation. This includes examining examples of musical transferences in the groups networked performances and the strategies and approaches that musicians are developing to negotiate non-visual and dispersed interaction.
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.
25th – Kunstmühle Gallery, Braunschweig, Germany. Ethernet Orchestra radio performance featuring Martin Slawig, Elke Utermöhlen, Yavuz Uydu (Sydney), Chris Vine (Londrina, Brazil). View details.
November – United States
4th – ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Paper presentation and performance tbc.
12th – One Thousand Pulses, New York. Performance by members of the ensemble with Richard Lainhart.
18th - Diffused Sound Series #5, Bon Marche Studio, University of Technology, Sydney.
Watch this space for photographs and sound files as the tour progresses !
May 6th, 2011
Sound Spectrum – Monday 9th May at 9pm EST, 7pm WST.
Experimental live Internet improvisation performed as an indeterminate loop from Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.
Follow link to listen to a recording and view photographs of this event.
As part of ‘Sound Spectrum‘ festival Perth, students at Edith Cowan University WA, RMIT, Melbourne and Sound and Music Design students at UTS will collaborate in an improvisatory Internet loop using network latency as compositional tool. The performance will be performed live to an audience at the Velvet Lounge Perth, as an evolving improvisatory loop crossing 3 states and 2 time-zones
Sydney node can be listened to from:
http://138.25.139.132:8000/listen.m3u
Performers: University of Technology, Sydney.
Jordan Dorjee
Hugo Smart
Roger Mills
Edith Cowan University, WA (Aletheia ensemble)
Bob White
Charlie Daly
Liz Bonny
Suzanne Kosowitz
Mitch Mollison
Sam Gillies
Caitlin Woods
November 30th, 2010
The Fifth International Conference on Multimodality (5ICOM) is taking place in Sydney on 1-3 December 2010.
5ICOM is a meeting point for international scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, including communication and language studies, social semiotics, linguistics, education, (new) media studies, design, traditional and new media arts, cultural studies, sociology, history, and (computer) science.
Speakers:
John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany
Ross Gibson, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia
Carey Jewitt, University of London, UK
Adam Kendon, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jim Martin, University of Sydney, Australia
Len Unsworth, University of New England
Theo van Leeuwen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Case study presentation by Roger Mills is based on two case studies on Ethernet Orchestra networked improvisations.
Abstract can be found on page 66 of the conference abstracts.
View triscreen video excerpt.
More project information.
View Ethernet Orchestra – Distant Presences, FBi Radio A/V performance. For further information please contact Roger.Mills@uts.edu.au
