Overview
Instructor: Alain Renaud and Alexander Carôt
Date: Saturday, 28. May 2011 13-17h
Duration: half-day (3h)
Max Participants: 15
Target Audience: Anybody interested in either performing music or low-delay networking or high-performance computer science or ideally all of them.
Your Skill Level: The workshop will be held in a descriptive way in order to cover any kind of audience -- ranging from beginners to professionals.
What to Bring: an open mind, coffee and beer ;-)
Description
The tutorial will give an overview of the basic principle, current strategies and technologies related to the field of distributed music performances and telepresence in general. Any aspect related to artistic goals, cognitive perception, network transmission, computer science and future technical directions will be covered. The practical part of the sessions will look at close range musical interactions within Europe and attempts are underway to also connect to far out places such as California and/or Chile to show the differences, musically and artistically.