Network Music Performance: the Good Ol’ Days compared to Now a Days
“IF you can keep your head when all about you are loosing theirs…”
It happened one day that we were playing a networked music/art concert/happening with Copenhagen and Rio. We were in Beijing. Rio was on IPV4 and was sending OSC data to us from sensors clipped to the leaves of a very robust house-plant/arduino cyborg. We got signal in Beijing when Guto in Rio gently blew air over the plant’s leaves, feeding it with CO2. We converted that energy into something to feed our sound and streamed that to Copenhagen over IPV6 using Jacktrip (by the grace of Sebastian’s IPV6 tunnel). While Copenhagen framed this as a sort of art/technology happening in Kjell’s lab, we were doing a live concert at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), projecting all the iChat streams onto our screen (our partners alas didn’t have telepresence hardware). From what I remember, Copenhagen then forwarded the audio over IPV4 to Rio AND Salvador — where Ivanni was improvising a dance with an iPad while Facetiming with a woman (reciting text) in Washington DC who could only get wi-fi at a neighborhood coffee shop. The iPad was also (economically) sending OSC data back to Beijing (tilt, acceleration) to feed into the complex control logic of Bruce’s Max patch — adding to this precariously balanced global system. If we had any physical signal gaps in this global feedback system, these were completed by n factors of distributed presence. Yes, there were sensors hooked-up to plants everywhere except Beijing, sending their OSC trails back to Beijing to somehow interact in our artificial, quantitative eco-controlled environment, but the emergent presence profile that we had so meticulously assembled over this one year research project suddenly bloomed forth (incarnated) in all its glorious aesthesia into a higher order perception of multi-chronotopic (con)fusion.
The Year 2018
Network music used to be hard. The Artsmesh application (macOS) has civilized the practice of live P2P network music performance - though it was inevitable.
Announcing the GLO Token: Global Loop Orchestra’s Token Generating Event
Artsmesh is starting an experiment today in bootstrapping a typical use case for a music group/band/ork that practices their art solely on the network. Enter the Global Loop Orchestra. We envision that every group will have it’s own tokenized microeconomy (fans/concerts) that fits into a larger economy that meshes with other economies; in other words, the blockchain.
Artsmesh started as an academic research project and then became a startup. Now it’s moving into decentralization land. If you’re on this trajectory, why don’t you get your feet wet now and start following this movement.
GLO Tokens go Live on New Years Eve Midnight (East Asia) 2018
Here is the link to our TGE on SingularDTV’s platform called Tokit.
“If you can fill the unforgiving minute, With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And — which is more — you’ll finally be in cryptocurrency, my daughter!”
Happy New Year 2018. See you on the mesh!
