Abstract (Short paper)

Keywords: Aesthetics, glitch, improvisation, interdisciplinary, mediation, music, telepresence, web.

Weblogmusic is a web-based venue for time-shifted improvising ensembles. By embracing the asynchronously created, glitch-prone nature of internet fora, the project allows each performance to be unique in the viewer’s browser, with unpredictable network latency disrupting cause and effect in ensemble interactions. The project brings focus to extramusical elements including presence, authenticity, and causality as well as the non-transparent effects of mediatization, allowing the audience to reflect on the unique properties of live performance and the unique properties that emerge from mediated performance.

• Jeffrey M. Morris  is a composer, performer, and director of the PerfTech program at Texas A&M University (USA). He creates instruments and performance situations that allow audiences to consider the impact of techno-mediation on the human experience: presence, authenticity, and the passing of time. Often, this involves novel sounds, ways of moving on stage to play an instrument, and ways of building a musical performances. He uses performance to ask, “What does it mean to be human in the twenty-first century?” Morris has presented works in the Milano Triennale museum, Onassis Cultural Center (Athens), Austin Museum of Art (Texas), Flea Theater (New York City), and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum (Texas). He also curates the Fresh Minds Festival of audiovisual art.

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