Place/Dates: Hamburg – November 22-27, 2009
Description:
Klangwerktage 2009 Festival
Activities specifically sponsored by COMEDIA :
1. “Troposphères” by Sascha Lemke,
2. “An Invisible Line” by Andrea Cera,
3. European Bridges Ensemble: “Palimpsest”,
4. David Moss: “Wittgenstein Sings, Calloway Sighs”,
5. Ensemble WireWorks: “Pulsations”.
Objective:
Presentation of local network and wide area network Internet performances within the framework of an international music festival dedicated to contemporary music.
Results:
1. “Troposphères” by Sascha Lemke
Concert and installation. The ensemble Resonanz performed distributed in a large hall controlled by computers in a local wireless network.
2. “An Invisible Line” by Andrea Cera
Two-way installation between Genoa (UGDIST) and Hamburg (Klangwerktage Festival).
3. European Bridges Ensemble: Palimpsest
Presentation of the results of the 2009 EBE summer residency.
4. David Moss: “Wittgenstein Sings, Calloway Sighs”
This is a preparatory event for the “Provokalia Choir” project to be shown in 2010.
5. Ensemble WireWorks: “Pulsations”
The program included “Nethalls” by Pedro Rebelo (SARC), which used the open computer idea exemplified in his Netrooms project (http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~prebelo/netrooms/)
Website: http://www.klangwerktage.de/
Target group: General audience.
Number of participants/visitors/audience :
• More than 1000 for the CO-ME-DI-A related events.
• Approximately 2300 total for entire Klangwerktage 2009 Festival.