Canons for Conlon: Composing and Performing Multiple Tempi on the Web

Roger B. Dannenberg

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2021
• Location: Shanghai, China
• Article Number: 68
• DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.a41fe2c5 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

In response to the 2020 pandemic, a new work was composed inspired by the limitations and challenges of performing over the network. Since synchronization is one of the big challenges, or perhaps something to be avoided due to network latency, this work explicitly calls for desynchronization in a controlled way, using metronomes running at different rates to take performers in and out of approximate synchronization. A special editor was developed to visualize the music because conventional editors do not support multiple continuously varying tempi.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME21_68,
 abstract = {In response to the 2020 pandemic, a new work was composed inspired by the limitations and challenges of performing over the network. Since synchronization is one of the big challenges, or perhaps something to be avoided due to network latency, this work explicitly calls for desynchronization in a controlled way, using metronomes running at different rates to take performers in and out of approximate synchronization. A special editor was developed to visualize the music because conventional editors do not support multiple continuously varying tempi.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {68},
 author = {Dannenberg, Roger B.},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.a41fe2c5},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/MhcZyE2SCck},
 title = {Canons for Conlon: Composing and Performing Multiple Tempi on the Web},
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/jxo0v8r7},
 year = {2021}
}