The European Bridges Ensemble was established for Internet and network performance. Its current members are Kai Niggemann (Münster, Germany), Ádám Siská (Budapest, Hungary), Johannes Kretz (Vienna, Austria), Andrea Szigetvári (Budapest, Hungary), Ivana Ognjanovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Georg Hajdu (Hamburg, Germany), and Stewart Collinson (Lincoln, England), performing with Georg Hajdu’s interactive network performance environment Quintet.net.
In 2009 July the ensemble worked at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg together with four young composers to create new network pieces. The result will be presented at MNW2009.

Music:
Johannes Kretz, Ádám Siska, Andrea Szigetvári

Performed by:
Andrea Ladányi – laserharp
Gábor Vida – laserharp
Andrea Szigetvári – live electronics
Johannes Kretz – live electronics
Ádám Siska – programming
Attila Kalcsú, János Wieser – lasertechnics

Two dancers, two rooms connected with a network, four laserharps. The movements and the sounds created by the dancers will be visualized in form of movements of the laserbeams. The dancers situated in two different rooms will dance with each other’s laseravatars.

Hungarian Computer Music Foundation

studied sound recording and electroacoustic music at Fr. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. She worked as a music editor, sound engineer, musical producer for Hungaroton Recording Company and Hungarian Radio.She has worked at the Institute of Musicology as a member of the first computer music research project in Hungary.
In 1989 she was a Fulbright researcher in the USA. First she worked at Brooklyn College with Charles Dodge, later at Stanford University with John Chowning. After returning from the USA in 1990 she funded the Hungarian Computer Music Foundation to help to develop contemporary music life in Hungary.

From the beginning of ‘90-ies she has been the main organizer of the composition and computer music course of the International Bartók Festival, the Short Circuits contemporary music days and from 1998 the Making New Waves contemporary music festival.
Between 1993 and 1995 she developed the musical informatic course’s curriculum at Pécs University and the electronic music curriculum for the Liszt F. Academy of Music in Budapest. 1995 she started to teach musical informatics in the Pécs University and in 1996 electronic music at the Liszt F. Academy of Music in Budapest.
In 2001 she received two “Prix” of the a Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition in multimedia and sounart categories.
Her creative and reserch work concentrate mainly on the role of the timbre in new music.

I am happy to host the second Music in the Global Village Conference. Building on the success of the first edition, this year’s conference continues the debate around creativity in network music, but in a modified form. The final discussion of the 2007 conference proved to be such a positive experience for all of us, that it has directly informed the structure, organization and hopefully the athmosphere of the present conference, for which we propose much more open structure facilitating participation and dialogue. I would like to add my welcome to those of Jason and Georg, and I look forward to your stimulating contributions to the pioneering fields of the theory and practice of networked music performance.

Andrea Szigetvári
Hungarian Computer Music Foundation