Event overview
Dr. John Mathias & Jane Grant (University of Plymouth)
The Fragmented Orchestra (Jane Grant, John Matthias and Nick Ryan) is a huge sound-installation and distributed musical instrument, which was the winner of the PRS Foundation New Music Award 2008 and was first realised between 12 December 2008 and 22 February 2009 at 24 sites around the UK and FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool. In the work, audio is transmitted from the 24 sites over the internet to a central computer. The 24 channels of audio stimulate 24 artificial cortical spiking neurons, which process and granulate the audio. The processed audio is transmitted to 24 speakers at a central space, the project website http://www.thefragmentedorchestra.com and back to the 24 sites. We will discuss the development of the work, considering, in particular Threshold by Jane Grant and Cortical Songs by John Matthias and Nick Ryan. We will consider the relationships between stimulation, inter-neuronal plasticity and public interaction inherent in the work, and briefly consider the possibility of a new Neuronal Music Technology.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Oct 2009 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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