Networked performance by 3BP

Adam Pultz Melbye, Paul Stapleton, and and John Bowers

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

3BP is a new international trio of improvisors. Born of and in the pandemic and thus native to online exchange of real-time audio, the trio explores network instabilities, data loss, compression artefacts and latency as affordances for a creative approach to negotiating the physical and virtual materialities and spaces of online improvisation. The performance features instruments and interfaces already presented at NIME along with new inventions, chained together in complex signal and feedback loops across the network. A new video work in the style of a cinematic ‘essay film’ accompanies the performance, combining algorithmically edited collage, personal archival and documentary footage, and live visualizations. The concert is a document of the evolution and adaption of both instruments and performers as they become entangled in distributed and temporally asynchronous ecologies across continents.

Citation

Adam Pultz Melbye, Paul Stapleton, and and John Bowers. 2021. Networked performance by 3BP. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.75c3b1fd [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2021_music_9,
 abstract = {3BP is a new international trio of improvisors. Born of and in the pandemic and thus native to online exchange of real-time audio, the trio explores network instabilities, data loss, compression artefacts and latency as affordances for a creative approach to negotiating the physical and virtual materialities and spaces of online improvisation. The performance features instruments and interfaces already presented at NIME along with new inventions, chained together in complex signal and feedback loops across the network. A new video work in the style of a cinematic ‘essay film’ accompanies the performance, combining algorithmically edited collage, personal archival and documentary footage, and live visualizations. The concert is a document of the evolution and adaption of both instruments and performers as they become entangled in distributed and temporally asynchronous ecologies across continents.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {9},
 author = {Adam Pultz Melbye and Paul Stapleton and and John Bowers},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.75c3b1fd},
 editor = {Eric Parren and Wei Chen},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 title = {Networked performance by 3BP},
 track = {Music},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.75c3b1fd},
 year = {2021}
}