What is the Ping Melody? Ping Melody @ CYNETart_03transit, (12.10.2003, Dresden, Germany), guest musician: Matthias Lorenz (cello)
Most of net artists are using some specific possibilities of Internet: they are working with WWW, streaming, etc. In Ping Melody I treat Internet not so much as a tool which functions in given way, but as a space, that can be observed. I am specially interested in some sub-possibilities of Internet, that are growing out of simultaneous activity of huge count of its users - mental space, although objectivated: map od data transfer as a dynamic sum of actions taken by net users.
Ping Melody [at Centre Georges Pompidou / Paris, 2004
In performance I use single instrumentalist and sound of acoustic instrument in opposition to collective character of scanned dataspace. Masterly acoustic instrument play in connected on one hand with technical perfection, and on the other - with ability of giving an individual tone to uttered sound. In case of musicians dealing with improvisation, it is also connected with ability to react on occurring changes and to compose them in own sound form. This ability is particularly important in Ping Melody: music improvisation is created here in relation to unique, temporary entirety of world's information exchange, that's why only aware catching its characteristic points by musician (or rather characteristic of processes at a given moment) makes possible creation of sound form, consisted of some more than only mechanic reproduction of caused by net distortions, reflecting on source sound material. |