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Trio
2020
- Program Notes
- Concert for Smartphone Network is a music work for ensemble of mobile phones where a custom made network system connects the devices and combines the individual music lines of different performers into one music flow. The performers develop the music together and use the system to explore new ways to connect with each other through collective music making, by echoing each other and combining other players' music input with their own. The software uses message routing to synthesize the music flow on each device based on all the individual performers' inputs. In this way the system mitigates delays over long distance connections, making it possible for the performers to play across any distances in sync without any additional bandwidth requirements. The system works as a single instrument for multiple performers. A performance of the work typically consists of fast and intense loops of synthesized sound, exploring repetition, variation and sound color in a natural (non-tempered) scale and low (1-bit) sound resolution that embraces the discrete nature of digital sound. During a performance the players explore degrees of freedom within the rules of the system. The music develops as a series of contrasting sections of group improvisation while the small size of the handheld devices leaves the body free to move.
- Performer Credits
- The Networked Ensemble / Andreja Andric (DK), Maja Bosnic (RS), Małgorzata Żurada (CH/PL))
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