REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE IN VIRTUAL WORLDS:Studying Socio-Technical Environments through Multi-site Machinic Performance
Lead Research Organisation:
Queen's University Belfast
Department Name: Sonic Arts Research Centre
Abstract
This Fellowship examines music performance in networked environments, where the performance can be an improvisation, the playing of a notated score with other performers in a different physical location, and can even be a music performance staged within a virtual world, such as found in a gaming environment.The area of real-time networked music performance is a growing practice. Unfortunately it is under-explored by professional musicians, although computer network based practice has a drastic impact on the nature of music performance. It is therefore essential that in the shaping of future technologies and cultures the valuable practical considerations and critical reflections of a human performer be taken into account. Such practice-based approach stands in contrast to the conception of new systems according to the availability or ability of a certain technology.Networked performance environments raise practical and cultural issues that need to be addressed in order to better understand our engagement with technologies, their development, as well as their social and cultural impact.Some of those issues are the performer's and audience's experience of the performance, the type of language that may have to develop between performer and audience, the redefinition of performance in a virtual environment, as well as the cultural and technological implications of those environments.Music performance is a highly suited field for examining the social and cultural engagements in networked spaces, as it is the field where physical, time-based, subjective and inter-personal concerns are most apparent. By means of critical reflection on inherent meanings and on the social and cultural changes that network technology creates, the Fellowship will contribute to the advancement of our insights and understanding of socio-technical systems. The Fellow's practical performance skills and bodily knowledge, derived from her daily human-to-human interaction, provide excellent tools for addressing those questions.The proposed research will stage seven networked performances with local and international performers that will be recorded, edited and annotated.Ethnographically informed studies will be conducted in the form of interviews with performers and audiences in order to determine people's performance experience and their social engagement.The research will provide critical insight into social interaction and behaviour in virtual worlds and help us to better understand how music performance becomes altered in virtual spaces. Through regular public concerts, seminars and workshops, creative practice in musical networked performances will be disseminated. Insights into the nature of networked performance systems will thus be presented to performers, composers, theorists, the computer music community, and the listening public.The proposed Fellow is a professional performer of saxophone and a live improviser of international standing with a wide range of performing experiences that vary from orchestral playing to free jazz improvisation. The Fellow also has a strong background in theoretical writing and has published widely in conference proceedings and international journals. She is therefore highly suited to examine and question the impact that networked technology has on the area of music performance.
People |
ORCID iD |
Franziska Schroeder (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Franziska Schroeder (Author)
The Pontydian Performance: examining the performative layer.
Schroeder F
(2009)
Dramaturgy as a Model for Geographically Displaced Collaborations: Views from Within and Views from Without 1
in Contemporary Music Review
Schroeder F
(2009)
The Pontydian Performance: the performative layer
in Organised Sound
Schroeder F
(2009)
The Body Skinned: Rethinking performative presence
in Performance Research
Schroeder, F.
(2009)
Performing Technology: User Content and the New Digital Media
Schroeder, F.
(2008)
Caressing the Skin: Mobile devices and bodily engagement.
Title | "Fragmentos" and "Drony Feeds back" |
Description | performance |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | international collaboration |
Title | "Illusion of Control" Premiere |
Description | new work commission |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | digital development |
URL | http://www.socasites.qub.ac.uk/fschroeder/Docs/Illusion%20of%20Control/publicity_text.pdf |
Title | 16th of May 2009 (Two Thousand + NINE symposium concert) |
Description | international symposium |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | international collaboration |
URL | http://www.socasites.qub.ac.uk/fschroeder/symposium/2009/finalconcert.htm |
Title | 22 July 09: Sound and Music Computing Conference |
Description | performance at international conference |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | conference networking |
Title | 24 Fragments Event (Launch Performance for the Fragmented Orchestra) |
Description | UK collaboration |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | performance and system installation |
URL | http://www.socasites.qub.ac.uk/fschroeder/NetworkPerformances.html |
Title | 3 June 09: Net vs. Net Collective |
Description | international concert |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | international collaboration |
URL | http://www.socasites.qub.ac.uk/fschroeder/NetworkPerformances.html |
Title | August 2008 ICMC, Belfast. Week-long concerts with a final Network performance |
Description | final performance |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2008 |
Impact | public engagament |
Title | FAINT (2007) Double CD (CS088) of Improvised and Electroacoustic Music |
Description | FAINT (2007) Double CD (CS088) of Improvised and Electroacoustic Music with Pedro Rebelo (Piano and Instrumental Parasites) and Steven Davis (Drums). Released by creative source recordings (www.creativesourcesrec.com). |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2007 |
Impact | international network through distribution of the product |
URL | http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/catalog/catalog_088.html |
Title | FAINT (2007) Double CD (CS088) of Improvised and Electroacoustic Music |
Description | FAINT (2007) Double CD (CS088) of Improvised and Electroacoustic Music with Pedro Rebelo (Piano and Instrumental Parasites) and Steven Davis (Drums). Released by creative source recordings (www.creativesourcesrec.com). |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2007 |
Impact | CD distribution world wide since 2007 |
URL | http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/catalog/catalog_088.html |
Title | February 2009: 24 Fragments Event |
Description | UK network collaboration |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | UK collaboration and system research |
URL | http://www.socasites.qub.ac.uk/fschroeder/NetworkPerformances.html |
Title | Imogene Newland Stockhausen's "Tierkreis" |
Description | publication and performances Schroeder, F & Newland, I 2013, 'The Musical Body: Devising a choreo-musical interpretation for the work Tierkreis (1974-75) by Karlheinz Stockhausen'. in S Reeve (ed.), Nine Ways of Seeing a Body. Nine Ways of Seeing a Body, Triarchy Press, pp. 99. |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | Book chapter |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd7Uwiy8Vv4 |
Title | May there be... |
Description | CD recording with improvisors Pedro Rebelo (piano), Franziska Schroeder (Soprano Saxophone), Guilherme Rodrigues (Cello) and Ernesto Rodrigues (Viola). Creative Source Recordings CS134 |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2008 |
Impact | CD distribution |
URL | http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/artists/ernesto_material/discography/disc_134.html |
Title | Nov 2007 - Disparate Bodies Network Performance |
Description | distributed performance |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2007 |
Impact | research into composition for network performance |
URL | http://www.socasites.qub.ac.uk/fschroeder/Disparate%20Bodies.html |
Title | Nov 2008: Network concert with Casa da Música / Oporto |
Description | international concert |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2008 |
Impact | international collaboration |
Title | REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE IN VIRTUAL WORLDS:Studying Socio-Technical Environments through Multi-site Machinic Performance |
Description | AHRC funding |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2008 |
Impact | funding |
Title | ResoNations - An International Telematic Music Concert for Peace |
Description | international performance |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2010 |
Impact | international collaboration |
URL | http://www.socasites.qub.ac.uk/fschroeder/Docs/PressRelease_UN%20Concert.pdf |
Title | SecondLife Improvisation Performance Project |
Description | virtual reality performance |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2009 |
Impact | international collaboration |
Title | Single CD (September 2008), 'May there be' with improvisers Pedro Rebelo (piano), Franziska Schroeder (Soprano Saxophone), Guilherme Rodrigues (Cello) and Ernesto Rodrigues (Viola). |
Description | CD recording |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2008 |
Impact | audio recording distriubted internationally |
Description | The study into making music in networked environments led to a broadening of our ideas about how musicians perform in a setting where there is an absence of visual cues in the communication process. It also showed the different types of suitable music (scores) that can be used when making music with people in a network performance and led to commissioning composers to write new types of works that are better suited for this environment. The study led to the proposal for a dramaturgical framework that enables musicians and directors to make important decisions when planning a network performance. Ultimately, the study led to the formation of a strong research team, working at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, led by Dr Schroeder and Prof Rebelo. The team dedicates work to network music performance and has attracted over 10 international researchers who work within the area of network performance research. The team also has since carried out over 40 network events with musicians from around the world and the original study has led to a large EU funded research project on network music performance, entitled Co-ME-Di-A. |
Exploitation Route | Many of the findings can be used in the area of digital technologies within contemporary education. |
Sectors | Creative Economy,Education |
URL | http://www.somasa.qub.ac.uk/~comedia/ |
Description | I have been continually invited to international networks discussing distributed/network performance |
Sector | Creative Economy |
Impact Types | Cultural |
Description | Major network study (The Apart Study, 2007) carried out at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast. With written observations by an anthropologist. |
Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
Department | Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Information taken from Final Report |