sound of the net, plunderphonics and brain opera

the sound of the net: what is the sound of the net and what can we do with it? consider these elements – glitches, jitter, feedback, latency.

Kim Cascone: an electronic musicians and wrote the text ‘the aesthetics of failure’, describing how sometimes the most interesting things often happen by accident. the speed of the net in the past was very slow especially sharing sound files. dolby came up with a recipe (programme) where it can be assembled locally.

plunderphonics: invented by a composer, Canadian Composer called John Oswald. he plundered the internet to make music. at the time layering was done through analogue/hand methods.

the conceptual frameworks of the net – perspective: the net is essentially a global perspective. timeframe – the listener is the master of when and how many times to listen to something, when to stop it and at what point, how loud etc. the material frame – deciding this is challenging but best to focus on which aspects are at play on any given example.

Nebula.M81: software which is free to download and allows you to open raw data and reproduce it as a MIDI file and produces glitches.

Brain Opera by Tod Machover: this piece is an interactive walk in model of the brain. and became a way to create hyper-instruments and ways for users through the internet make interactions and manipulations to the music during performances so that is is always changing.

 teleharmonium: using masts as transmission, Thaddaeus Cahill invented this instrument which was the earlies transmission machine of sound. the beginning of streaming in 1906.

Max Neuhaus: composer and avant guarde artist’s piece called Public Supply which allowed listeners to participate in the production of the work through the telephone – a collective endeavour.