A Lecture by:
Julian Rohrhuber, Alberto de Campo, Renate Wieser,
Jan-Kees van Kampen, Echo Ho, and Hannes Hölzl.

Abstract:
Since its early computer era, network music has
been involved with algorithms, rules systems and
text terminals. We will address algorithmic
composition where it becomes collaborative live
coding in networks, and where both sounds and
program texts are an element of conversation. The
technical and aesthetic strategies behind the
ensemble ‘powerbooks unplugged’ and their
abandonment of the stage will be discussed. While
persons’ actions may be indirect as well as
remote, the text that this mediation is based on
regains the form of a simple letter.

Purloined Letters and Distributed Persons. Paper by PowerBooks UnPlugged.