Budapest

December 2009
Trip as part of COMEDIA, meeting in Budapest and final concert with local musicians.
Making Music in the Global Village Conference.
Great conference, very nice stay and intimate conversations with the network crowd.

ICMC 2008

The upcoming ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) is very, very close.
It is taking place in Belfast this year and we are all flat out with organising. I have taken on the artisitc direction of the Roots Ensemble, which will be playing the opening concert of the ICMC on Sunday, the 24th of August, 7pm in the Whitla Hall. The Roots Ensemble will be playing throughout the conference in various formations. I have been able to recruit some amazing players and if you are nearby you can hear performers such as German based Flautist Carin Levine, Portuguese Percussionist Pedro Carneiro, UK-based Pianist Philip Thomas, Trombonist John Kenny from Scotland, and Cellist Su-a-Lee, Violinist Roman Mints, Concert Accordionist Denis Patkovic from Germany, Irish born (New-York based) Piper Ivan Goff, Irish Harpist Laoise Kelly, Bass Clarinettist Deirdre O'Leary, US-based Clarinettist Esther Lamneck and my humble self on saxes.

MUSICKING THE NETWORK: THE BODY AS DISTURBANT

One of my forthcoming publications that investigates the network as a site for music performance; in particular, the net’s performative conditions with the tightly linked notion of community that become exposed through the medium of music as an intrinsic social practice.
In this paper we examine the scattered viewpoints that characterize the network and question the idealized view of an all-connectedness. We position the human body as an interrupter of the network, and argue for a framework that, contrary to the often holistic approach to performing in the net, favors glances, fragments and desires....

Schroeder, F. and Rebelo, P. (2008, forthcoming). MUSICKING THE NETWORK: THE BODY AS DISTURBANT. Accepted for the Dispersive Anatomies issue in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

Faint - new trio

The new trio CD Faint is out on the creative sources record label.

Video of the CD launch
(11th October 2007 at the Sonic Arts Research Center in Belfast)