Place/Dates: HMTF, Hamburg 25-30 November 2008
Description:
Festival Contemptronics 2008 (3rd edition of the Hamburger Klangwerktage)
Activities sponsored by CO-ME-DI-A:
1. 6-day workshop (November 24 -28) with final concert »metaTRONICS« with Kim Cascone & Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and the participants of the workshop.
2. Concert »tapeTRONICS« (November, 25 2008) with students of the master’s program in multimedia composition.
3. Concert »netTRONICS« (November, 26 2008) with the European Bridges Ensemble.
4. Concert »Salt Itinerary« (November, 26 2008) with the Miso Ensemble.
5. Public event in the series »ganzOHR« (November, 29 2008) with the European Bridges Ensemble.
6. Concert by »Die Schrauber« (November 29, 2008) with Hans Tammen, Joker Nies and Mario da Vega
7. International symposium »Musik & Elektronik« with lectures by János Negyesy, Ludger Brümmer, Sascha Lemke, Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu, Prof. Dr. Sabine Breitsameter and Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Steffi Beckhaus.
Objective:
Presentation of current practices in the field of electronic music with an emphasis on network music in the framework of an international festival.
Results:
The festival has used different format to employ networks/Internet for music performance: 1) Web stream of three select concerts by European Bridges Ensemble and Die Schrauber, 2) Local network performance by European Bridges Ensemble on November, 26 2008, 3) Internet performance by European Bridges Ensemble on November 29, 2008.
Target group:
Music students, general audience.
Number of participants/visitors/audience : 40 active participants & 300 audience.