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Networked Music Symposium Slated for NYC and Second Life

Pace University will host a free public event on Friday called Programmable Media II: Networked Music to address the question of whether networked music can provide "a compelling music experience." The one-day event will highlight a number of digital artists who are attempting to do just that, plus explanations of how they go about it. […]
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Pace University will host a free public event on Friday called Programmable Media II: Networked Music to address the question of whether networked music can provide "a compelling music experience." The one-day event will highlight a number of digital artists who are attempting to do just that, plus explanations of how they go about it.

After an introduction covering the theory, history and ideas behind networked music (the central concept is to create music from networks and "the collective behaviors of their machine or human nodes"), attendees will see and/or hear a few networked music performances, which should provide helpful examples of what this stuff actually sounds like.

You can head over to the Multipurpose Room at 1 Pace Plaza on Friday(10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST) in New York City to attend the event inperson, or just point your Second Life avatar to this location. One of the panelists speaking at the event will appear via Second Life, so you'll be in good company.

Networked Music Review and the Networked Music Blog put together by curator Turbulence include more information. "Audience participation will be encouraged" from in-person and Second Life attendees.

Programmable Media II: Networked Music

Here's the full description from event organizers:

Programmable Media II: Networked_Music

A one-day symposium examining the current and future possibilities of network-enabled
music, will be held on April 11, 2008 at Pace University, NYC. The symposium is open to the public, and will include artist presentations and live performances.

Based on the rapidly expanding archive of music/sound experiments to be found on
Networked_Music_Review and the fifteen short works recently commissioned for it, the symposium aims to stimulate critical and far-ranging discussion on emerging music and sound art practice.

Audience participation will be encouraged.

SYMPOSIUM

The Multipurpose Room at 1 Pace Plaza

I0:00 – 10:45: Introduction Helen Thorington and Peter Traub
Thorington and Traub will set the groundwork for the conference by introducing a
variety of recent works from Networked Music Review and discussing the history,
ideas, and theory behind today’s creative practice.

11 – 1: Round-table discussion
Panelists: Dan Trueman, Peter Traub, Zach Layton, Sawako Kato, Jason Freeman
(moderator)
Panelists will be given 5-10 minutes to make a basic statement about their work. The
discussion will center on the significance of networks and whether they – and the
collective behaviors of their machine or human nodes – can form the basis of
compelling musical experiences.

LUNCH 1 – 2:30

2:30 Performances
Jason Freeman with Andrew Beck and Mark T. Godfrey, "Flou"
Tobias c van Veen, " til death do us a part"

3:00 - 5:30: Round Table discussion
Panelists: Lovid, Tobias c. van Veen, Adam Nash, and Helen Thorington (moderator)
Panelists will be given 5-10 minutes to make a basic statement about their work.
Discussion will continue with emphasis on cross-over works (music w/images, text,
video, video games etc.). Nash will speak to the symposium from Second Life, which
he calls a "post-convergent medium."

Short performances by Jason Freeman with Andrew Beck and Mark T. Godfrey and
Tobias c van Veen will be given during the course of the symposium.

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