Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana – Concert of Telepresence
The LOLs will perform an entire concert live in your browser. This new telematic form of Net Art will meld live coding of audio and imagery, recorded video with live streams, glitch imagery and network delay, and turn your web browser into an instrument of sonic art.
Monday, November 2 @ 7:30PM
Online – live.emdm.io
Secondary live stream available at twitch.tv/lsuemdm
Free and Open to the Public
With performances by:
Members of the LSU Chorale and LSU Tiger Glee Club
Trey Davis, conductor
LSU Physical Theater
Nick Erickson, director
and Members of the EMDM Ensemble
Please be aware that the full performance is IN-BROWSER. The live stream on twitch will document the performance, but please go to the website for the full participative experience…
Recommended Setup:
- Laptop Computer
- Google Chrome
- Large Display
- Good Speakers (or good headphones)
What is this really about?
When describing the computerization of society in 1978 Nora and Minc coined the term télématique to refer to the transfer of information in telecommunications. Today telematics is known for use in vehicles and gps systems, however with the expansion of IoT (Internet of Things) the concept has expanded to cover the multitudes. In music, Telematic performance commonly refers to live-streaming audio and video between locations – not just separating performers and audience, but multiple performers navigating the network delay musically. However, this may also take the form of communicating musical information such as notes, rhythms, recordings, and gestures. This organizing of sound collaboratively at a distance is the essence of telematic musical performance. The computerization of society has led to a computerization of culture, and the recent pandemic response has made us aware of how much we rely on this already.
The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana is taking telematic performance to an experimental level and has created an entire live performance over the world wide web. This internet performance will bring your computer alive to be performed as an instrument. The Ensemble weaves live streaming with live coding, laptop performance with video performance, glitch art with artistic latency.
- Performance in browser
- 3D live streaming
- Network as musical delay line
- Mediated Live performance
- Performance of the browser… McLuhen, eat your heart out
The medium is the message and the message this Monday is sonic art.