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FLO in Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session (Book)

Roger Mills, the founder of the network music ensemble Ethernet Orchestra (EO), just published a new book Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session, featuring, amongst other things, the extracts from the interviews with musicians, composers and telematic performers (including the interview with Nela about the Female Laptop Orchestra project!). There has been some talk about EO and …

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FLO at PQ2015

Turns out, doing a performance at Klang 2015 in Durham was a 'piece of cake' compared to the Sound Kitchen 2015 performance, FLO team flew out to do a few weeks later, as part of PQ2015 in Prague. Long story short ... Testing Day 1: Butt software does not recognise Alesis iO2 audio interface ... erm ... …

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FLO at Klang 2015

Preparing a collaborative music performance involving 3 co-located performers, 6 distributed performers and an AI agent mixing local and remote sound sources (sometimes delayed by up to 20.3 seconds) so the output can be spatialised over 8-channel speakers is no mean feat! Add to that: 'making friends' with a borrowed cello that has different acoustic …

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Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3, 4 …

Our performances at Klang Festival (Durham University Music Department, 5th June) and Sound Kitchen (PQ2015 24 June) are just around the corner so testing of remote set-ups, instrument pick-ups, Bitwig Studio plug-ins and SuperCollider patches is in full swing! The set-up with UltraGrid software is still a bit temperamental, probably due to all of us having different (older) versions of MacOS …

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