A Lecture by Mark Trayle

Digital networks are a useful medium for musical collaborations remote and present, but can the network itself be a source of musical information? In a network-based musical project how can the performance terrain and the network interact and overlap? How can networks be enhanced to include people who donâ019t play laptop?  Where are the elisions between composition, improvisation, and emergent musical behaviors?
 
Using the author’s works for instrumental ensembles with navigation electronics as examples, this paper explores the history, technology, and aesthetics of using the physical spaces and the topology of networks as musical elements.
 
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Fellow Travelers - Topography as Metaphor and Method. Paper by Mark Trayle.