Showcase Concert 2011

A Concert of works by PhD composers at the School of Music and Sonic Arts. All works featured various saxophones, accordion, electronics plus two network pieces with New York.
Links to audio and video here.

Sonorities 2010

Photos from some very wonderful concerts, celebrating artistic collaboration in the context of the Comedia Culture 2007 European project. The 2010 Sonorities Festival extended from Belfast to Graz/Austria and Hamburg/Germany with performances in, on and across the network. (Photos copyright Caroline Forbes).

Newcastle Music and Machines Symposium

I gave a talk on 'listening in the network' at the Music and Machines Symposium in Newcastle, September 24-26.
Movie File of the Slides:

Invited Talk for the launch of the "Interference Journal"

My presentation on "Haptic Aurality - Network[ed] Listening"
Dublin, 6 July 2010 @ Dublin Science Gallery.
Thanks to all the wonderful people from Gradcam.
An exciting evening.

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.

ResoNations Network Concert

The biggest network endeavour yet!
A 5 site network performance sponsored by the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
On the 20/21 November 2009 musicians in Belfast, San Diego, Banff, New York and Seoul came together for a mammoth program. More details on the original website.

DRHA 2008

Just back from the DRHA 2008 where I presented "SL'Étude" which was originally supposed to be a performance. This didn't work out as it was technically a bit complicated. Instead, I talked about the project, and Chris Chong came for the presentation to talk more about the hard-core programming.
Some short clips from the presentation:


- LED lights for gesture tracking of performer -


- SL object interaction with MAX -

Network Performance ICMC/NYU/CCRMA

Today we will be testing/rehearsing the piece for next week's ICMC network performance. Exciting news is that we will be using Curtis Bahn’s vibrobytes.
We will be joined by two other ensembles in Troy/New York:
Tintinabulate (directed by Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch and Curtis Bahn of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute):
Curtis Bahn - dilruba
Jonas Braasch - soprano sax
Pauline Oliveros - accordion
Dan Valente - violin
Holland Hobson - ?
Anne Guthrie - horn
Bobby Gibbs - clarinet
Doug van Nort - laptop

In Palo Alto/California by SoundWire (directed by Chris Chafe, director of CCRMA at Stanford University):
Chris Chafe - Celleto
Juan-Pablo Caceres – synthesizer

In Belfast from SARC The Roots Ensemble (directed by Franziska Schroeder):
Franziska Schroeder - saxophone
Pedro Rebelo - piano
Alain Renaud - laptop
Gascia Ouzounian - violin

Next week, we will also be joined by:
Laoise Kelly - Traditional harp
Ivan Goff – Pipes
John Kenny – trombone

The piece we are doing is entitled "Tele-Morphosis". It is an improvisation for three co-located music ensembles and telematic live-electronics. In this work the relationships between co-located musicians and their interactions across different acoustic and virtual spaces are explored.