Place/Dates: University of Pécs (Faculty of Visual Arts & Music), 10-12 December, 2010.

Description:

Conceptual showroom implemented in the context of the Music in the Global Village  Festival

Music in the Global Village researches technological and artistic domains that are made available through the interaction of humans and machines in networked systems. It aims to create a platform for musicians and media-artists or collaborative net-based art-projects as well as a context for discussion of the latest issues in live-electronic performance. After two editions of the conference in 2007 and 2009, the Symposium in Pécs aimed at summarizings some of the conceptual results of the CO-ME-DI-A project, the ideas initiated at the conferences and the progress made since the first conference.

Objective:

To present lectures, extended group discussions, a concert and installation connected to the theory and practice of networked music. The main goal was to continue an ongoing, growing conversation about networked music.

Results:

There were 22 lectures and 2 discussion sessions.

There was also the premiere at Pécs of the work “D(é)RIVE:GPS-Trans 11” realized during the summer artist residency by EBE and Marek Choloniewski. GPS-Trans is a series of projects by Marek Chołoniewski in which GPS positioning data tracking a car is being transmitted to a concert hall and further processed. The European Bridges Ensemble has been working since May 2010 on the realization of the project during a total of four working periods. The presentation, which accompanied the Music in the Global Village Symposium came in two forms :

1) A concert in which a car driving around Pécs serves as a remote controller for a local multimedia network performance. Four electronic musicians were seated in the corners outside the 4-screen projection creating the impression of a cube. In addition, a fifth performer was allowed to walk around freely to send control information via a hand-held device. The conductor and the video artist were seated on small tables by the walls of the performance space. The concert was successful as a first presentation of a work in progress. Further work on the piece is on the ensemble’s agenda.

2) An installation in which a dance floor interface controls the trajectory of the moving car projected on four screens. The participants of the symposium as well as the general audience were able to experience during the opening hours of the Music in the Global Village Symposium, which took place at the Pécs University Arts Faculty.

The project generated video and sonic documentation.

Event website:www.globalvillagemusic.net

Target group:

Intellectuals, students, artists, children, general public.

Number of participants/visitors/audience :

• Conference participants : 20

• Audience at the concert and installation: 80