networkmusicfestival

Fragments, Network Music Festival, July 2020
NMF // SOUND WITHOUT BORDERS
The fourth Network Music Festival will take place online 15-18th July 2020.

Exploring innovative digital music, art and research which investigates the impact of networking technology on musical creation and performance practice, Network Music Festival presents cutting edge musical performances, workshops and discussions.

Network Music Festival 2020 is a global festival hosted on online streaming platforms.

Fragments uses various networking techniques such as Zoom or collaborative ‘distributed listening’ app LiveShout (developed by Dr Franziska Schroeder and Prof Pedro Rebelo at Queens University, Belfast) and the LocusSonus soundmap so that performers can ‘jam’ remotely.
Mixing and reacting to each other’s field recordings and sonic experiments, collaboration becomes a horizontal and egalitarian method of decolonising musicological research, circumventing top down, traditional methods and conclusions. The limitations of the online platforms in addition to unstable internet access presents challenges to the collaborators. The experiment’s aim is not necessarily to present a beautiful sonic piece or score but to reflect on the artists’ experience of playing together apart.

11:59:13 From Zeynep Ayse Hatipoglu : will listening to you now and jam acustic just for my self
12:00:07 From Nour Sokhon : wt about if u connect it to a speaker
12:00:11 From Nour Sokhon : and we hear the room sound?
12:00:14 From Jilliene Sellner : My sound has gone again
12:00:46 From Nour Sokhon : khalas we need to get funding for a server
12:00:49 From Nour Sokhon : and hire someone
12:00:57 From Nour Sokhon : :D
12:01:01 From Nour Sokhon : so we can jam :P
12:01:10 From Jilliene Sellner : My sound goes on and off in Ableton. Who knows!
12:01:30 From Jilliene Sellner : Ok so someone start!
12:01:33 From Nour Sokhon : tab yara
12:01:40 From Nour Sokhon : do u wanna jam for fun
12:01:58 From Nour Sokhon : ahaha then u guys come in when it works
12:02:03 From Nour Sokhon : and then magic
12:02:21 From Jilliene Sellner : I can barely hear something
12:02:32 From Nour Sokhon : from ure ableton mm
12:02:42 From Zeynep Ayse Hatipoglu : I am hearing just noise
12:02:48 From Nour Sokhon : restart computer ?
12:02:52 From Jilliene Sellner : lol
12:03:06 From Yara Mekawei : do you hear me
12:03:18 From Nour Sokhon : playing no
12:03:46 From Nour Sokhon : do u hear me?
12:03:53 From Jilliene Sellner : My computer just just down. lol
12:03:53 From Zeynep Ayse Hatipoglu : yes
12:04:00 From Jilliene Sellner : You guys go
12:04:17 From Yara Mekawei : you hear me
12:04:23 From Nour Sokhon : aywa
12:04:51 From Nour Sokhon : so yalla
12:05:22 From Nour Sokhon : wait restart
12:05:23 From Nour Sokhon : yalla
12:07:40 From Jilliene Sellner : y
12:08:23 From Jilliene Sellner : Sounds great.
12:08:41 From Nour Sokhon : i am not hearing u yara
12:08:43 From Jilliene Sellner : I can barely here aye I think
12:08:47 From Jilliene Sellner : ayse
12:08:58 From Nour Sokhon : i was
12:09:05 From Jilliene Sellner : ok
12:09:11 From Jilliene Sellner : It’s hard to tell
12:09:41 From Jilliene Sellner : So that is already half of our time.
12:09:46 From Jilliene Sellner : Its going to go very fast
12:09:49 From Jilliene Sellner : Now I hear ayse
12:09:54 From Yara Mekawei : me too
12:10:16 From Jilliene Sellner : lol
12:10:35 From Jilliene Sellner : My computer has decided to take this moment to update. ffs
12:14:20 From Jilliene Sellner : I think you can play a lot louder ayse
12:17:38 From Jilliene Sellner : My sound isn’t working but I’ll fix it
12:17:40 From Jilliene Sellner : Keep going
12:19:42 From Jilliene Sellner : My computer crashed again!
12:23:49 From Zeynep Ayse Hatipoglu : Yes we can all try to follow the score and improvise
12:23:56 From Nour Sokhon : should the 3 of us try
12:24:18 From Zeynep Ayse Hatipoglu : what are we doing
12:24:29 From Jilliene Sellner : Ah its about to end. 10 mintues
12:24:44 From Nour Sokhon : ther is 9 min left shall we open a new zoom session?
12:24:55 From Nour Sokhon : and we try to follow the score with improvisation
12:25:07 From Yara Mekawei : okay
12:25:12 From Nour Sokhon : okay
12:25:18 From Nour Sokhon : yalla ill make a zoom invite
12:25:24 From Zeynep Ayse Hatipoglu : ok
12:25:24 From Yara Mekawei : ok