Workshop Details
Network Music Performance (NMP) Workshop
Sunday August 24 2008 : 14.30 - 17.30 | Register here
Two participants chosen randomly across the audience will receive a free Jamlink network music performance box (value $299 each) kindly given away by Silicon Valley based company MusicianLink. The Jamlink box is a standalone appliance with audio inputs/outputs and network connectivity providing seamless and instant high quality low latency audio connectivity to other participants on the Jamlink network.
This workshop will offer a "nuts and bolts" session on how to run a successful network music performance (NMP). A set of essential tools allowing the transmission of real-time high quality multi-modal networked interactions will be showcased. This will include audio streaming, video streaming and message communication tools. Participants will be shown how to implement and use such tools and will have the opportunity to run a real network session with a second live connected site. The workshop will also explore the artistic possibilities brought by NMPs and will look into factors such as latency and the combination of acoustic spaces which are important to consider when designing NMPs. The workshop is partially organised by the CO-ME-DI-A EU Culture 2007 project.
Schedule:
- Introduction to Network Music Performance (NMP) - Alain Renaud (30 minutes)
- Wide Area Network Music Performance. The JackTrip Application and its descendants - Juan Pablo Cáceres (live over the Net from CCRMA, Stanford USA) (30 minutes)
- Realistic Interaction Approach – Playing over the network with SoundJack - Alexander Carôt (30 minutes)
- Network Performance Demos: (1) Wide Area Networks with JackTrip, messaging, vizualisations and ambisonic streaming. Live demo between SARC and CCRMA. The audience will have a chance to get involved in the process. (2) Demonstration of the Musicianlink’s Jamlink box (3) Network performance over narrow bandwidth networks with SoundJack.
The Organisers:
Alain B. Renaud is originally from Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to embarking on PhD research in network music performance at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast in 2005, he was head of research for the London-based digital strategy consultancy, Rightscom from 2001 to 2005. While working in London he gained a MSc. in Music Information Technology from City University (2002-2004). His research, which is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) focuses on the development of networked music performance systems and the impact such systems have on the various music communities. Alain has published several papers on the subject and has organized many events with the aim to introduce networked music performance to the research community as well as the general public.
Juan-Pablo Cáceres is a composer, performer and engineer born in Santiago, Chile. He is currently a PhD student in computer music at CCRMA in Stanford University (USA). His work includes instrumental and electronic pieces, as well as performance of avantgarde rock and pop music, with a albums edited in Europe and America. Juan-Pablo's interests include Network music and performance (he is an active member of the SOUNDWire project), popular experimental music, boundary pushing computer music (in both directions).
Alexander Carôt has actively been playing bass and the chapman-stick in several rock, pop and jazz ensembles and has a practical training in programming and electrical engineering,. Combined with a passion for sound engineering he passed an interdisciplinary study program in order to combine the arts and technology. Driven by the dream of remote music performances with musicians in different places, he started PhD related research in 2004 at the University of Lübeck/Germany. In this context he developed the Soundjack software, which has been used in various network music performances all over Europe. Apart from valuable collaborations with CCRMA/Stanford, SARC/Belfast and IRCAM/Paris he is continuously improving Soundjack in terms of the Fraunhofer ULD Codec integration (Ultra Low Delay). Currently he´s playing in an avantgarde jazz project "Triologue", and in terms of recent research activities, he´s focusing on new QoS (Quality of Service) approaches for network music performances.