The Loop

Jason Dixon, Tom Davis, Jason Geistweidt, and Alain B. Renaud

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2011
• Location: Oslo, Norway
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Abstract:

Program notes: The Loop explores the possibilities of co-located performance, decentralized composition, and the acoustics of network. This performance begins with a brief improvisation presenting acoustic sources to excite the network. This material is shared, transformed, and reintroduced into the composition. This process continues through successive generations until a predetermined time or a point at which the composition naturally concludes. The result is an integrated meta-instrument and an emergent composition, with no one artist being the sole performer or composer. Remote participants are represented locally by a mono speaker enabling the audiences to hear the transformation of audio through the networked instrument. About the performers: Jason Dixon: Irish composer currently based in Norwich where he is in the process of completing his PhD in composition. His work explores issues of language, perception and memory in music. More recently he has been focusing on the Irish storytelling tradition and its place in contemporary Ireland. Tom Davis: Digital artist working mainly in the medium of sound installation. His practice and theory based output involves the creation of technology led environments for interaction. Davis is currently a lecturer at the University of Bournemouth and holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast. Jason Geistweidt: Sound artist based at the University or Tromsø, Norway, researching mixed-reality stages and performance systems. He is a former faculty member of Interactive Arts and Media department at Columbia College Chicago. He holds PhD in electro-acoustic composition from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University, Belfast. Alain B. Renaud: Alain's research focuses on networked music performance systems with an emphasis on the creation of strategies to interact over a network musically and the notion of shared networked acoustic spaces. He is a lecturer in at Bournemouth University, England and holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{nime2011-music-JasonDixon2011,
 abstract = {Program notes:

The Loop explores the possibilities of co-located performance, decentralized composition, and the acoustics of network. This performance begins with a brief improvisation presenting acoustic sources to excite the network. This material is shared, transformed, and reintroduced into the composition. This process continues through successive generations until a predetermined time or a point at which the composition naturally concludes. The result is an integrated meta-instrument and an emergent composition, with no one artist being the sole performer or composer. Remote participants are represented locally by a mono speaker enabling the audiences to hear the transformation of audio through the networked instrument.

About the performers:

Jason Dixon: Irish composer currently based in Norwich where he is in the process of completing his PhD in composition. His work explores issues of language, perception and memory in music. More recently he has been focusing on the Irish storytelling tradition and its place in contemporary Ireland.

Tom Davis: Digital artist working mainly in the medium of sound installation. His practice and theory based output involves the creation of technology led environments for interaction. Davis is currently a lecturer at the University of Bournemouth and holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast.

Jason Geistweidt: Sound artist based at the University or Tromsø, Norway, researching mixed-reality stages and performance systems. He is a former faculty member of Interactive Arts and Media department at Columbia College Chicago. He holds PhD in electro-acoustic composition from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University, Belfast.

Alain B. Renaud: Alain's research focuses on networked music performance systems with an emphasis on the creation of strategies to interact over a network musically and the notion of shared networked acoustic spaces. He is a lecturer in at Bournemouth University, England and holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre.},
 address = {Oslo, Norway},
 author = {Jason Dixon and Tom Davis and Jason Geistweidt and Alain B. Renaud},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 editor = {Kjell Tore Innervik and Ivar Frounberg},
 month = {June},
 publisher = {Norwegian Academy of Music},
 title = {The Loop},
 url = {https://vimeo.com/26679893},
 year = {2011}
}