Symposium on network music in Pécs

When: December 10-12. 2010.

Where: University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, Damjanich u. 30, Pécs, Hungary

The “Music in the Global Village” symposium researches technological and artistic domains that are made available through the interaction of humans and machines in networked systems. It aims to create a platform for musicians and media-artists or collaborative net-based art-projects and for the discussion of the latest issues in live-electronic performance. After two editions of the conference in 2007 and 2009 the Symposium in Pécs will summarize the results of the Co-Me-Di-A cultural collaboration performed in the framework of the European Commitie’s Culture porgramme, the ideas initiated at the conferences and the progress made since the first conference.

General concepts:

• what does network facilitate, what does network impede
• what is gained, what is lost
• how do we adapt (to) the new possibilities afforded by the Network
• where the network, as a medium, facilitates  “traditional” performance, improvisation by artists in remote locations?
• transformation of the rules of musical communication
• extending the notion of social intercourse and co-operation in different forms of art

Concepts emerging from the framework of the CoMeDiA project:

• the network as acoustic medium
• avatars: embodiment of remote performers through gesture-modulated visual display
• audience participation in network performance
• virtual spaces
• pedagogy of network music

The lecturers of the symposium are associates or artists of the institutions, artistic groups listed below:
IRCAM, Paris; SARC, Belfast; IEM, Graz; UNIGE, Genova; HFMT, Hamburg; HCMF, Budapest; EBEHamburg/Münster/Budapest/Vienna/Beograd/Lincoln; PTE MK MAMI, Pécs.

The symposium is open to the public and free of charge. To participate, please register by sending an email with a short bio to: info@hcmf.hu.

 

PROGRAMME

Lecture session #1

Friday, 10 December · 15:00 – 17:30, Room 218

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

Catching network activity – presentations from participating institutions (1.)

15.00-15.15: Andrea Szigetvári [H]
15.15-15.30: Georg Hajdu [GER]
15.30-15.45: Winfried Ritsch [A]
- coffee break -
16.00-16.15: Gualtiero Volpe [I] (online)
16.15-16.30: Pedro Rebelo [GB] (online)
16.30-16.45: Balázs Kovács [H]
16.45-17.30: Questions, comments

Lecture session #2

Saturday, 11 December · 10:00 – 13:30, Room 105

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

10.00-10.40 Lecture session: Network based GPS control system
10.00-10.20: Marek Choloniewski [PL]
10.20-10.40: Marcin Wierzbicki [PL]
10.40-11.00 Lecture session:

Catching network activity – presentations from participating institutions (2.)
10.40-11.00: Andrew Gerzso [F]
- coffee break -
11.20-12.40 Lecture session:

Audio/video/stage design for network performances
11.20-11.40: Georg Hajdu [GER]
11.40-12.00: Constantin Basica [GER]
12.00-12.20: Rémi Desmonet [F]
12.20-12.40: Winfried Ritsch [A]

12.40-13.20 Lecture session: Extension of the notion of spatialization
12.40-13.00: Winfried Ritsch [A]
13.00-13.20: Markus Noisternig [A] (telepresence)

Lecture session #3

Saturday, 11 December · 15:00 – 18:30, Room 105

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

15.00-16.00 Lecture session: Relation to the audience/ Social interaction/ Pedagogy
15.00-15.20: Andrew Gerzso [F]
15.20-15.40: Jacob Sello [GER]
15.40-16.00: Kai Niggeman [GER]
- coffe break -
16.30-18.30: Discussion session (1.)
With the participation of musicians and dancers from the CoMeDiA projects: Elisabeth Harnik, Andrea Ladányi, Veronika Zott

Lecture session #4

12 December · 10:00 – 15:00, Room 105

Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/symposium-installation-concert

10.00-11.00: Co-Me-Di-A partners’ meeting
11.00-12.20: Lecture session: Strategies for finding artistically meaningful applications of Internet technology
11.00-11.20: Johannes Kretz [A]
11.20-11.40: Andrea Szigetvári [H]
11.40-12.00: Ádám Siska [H]
12.00-12.20: Felipe Hickman [GB]
- coffe break -
12.40-15.00: Discussion session (2.)
With the participation of musicians and dancers from the CoMeDiA projects:
Elisabeth Harnik, Andrea Ladányi, Veronika Zott

 

Organized by: Hungarian Computer Music Foundation

Sponsors: EU Culture Program, NKA, Nikolaus Lenau Kulturverein, MAMI PTE MK, Kertész Panzió, VisualPower

More information: www.globalvillagemusic.net

 

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