Improvised performances right here in your web browser.
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The latest Cartomancy Mix is a digital pavilion in the 2023–2024
What’s it for?
- Hear artists collaborate from across time and space!
- Make music and performance art along with them!
- Give aspiring improvisers an ensemble to rehearse with
- Give composers a set of virtual collaborators to develop interactive compositions
- Highlight the nature of communications technology as not-so-transparent factors in our communication and creativity
- Use the network as a creative constraint, not a substitute for live presence
Using the structure of today’s screen-mediated communications, these performers contribute their parts one at a time, responding to what was played before, and together they build “born digital” performances that expose the delays and glitches of network communications and make something genuinely *human* with it. As the audience, we witness performances that only exist in our web browsers, in the moments we’re viewing it. There can be no “definitive version” of the performance!
“Weblogmusic: Taking the Mediatized Stage” ARTECH conference paper
The whole Weblogmusic site was a digital pavilion in the 2021–2022
Also presented in:
- International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)
- Network Music Festival
- International Society for Improvised Music conference (ISIM)
- Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS)