June 18th, 2001 Connection: On Monday morning, June 18, 2001, a third collaborative I2 experiment between New York University and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis took place. John Gilbert has provided his debriefing of the event which also includes ideas gleaned in discussion with others and comments made during the Q & A session.
The first experiment took place a year ago at the 10th Annual Music Technology Workshop at IUPUI featuring Celina Charlier from NYU in a performance of a contemporary recorder piece with extended techniques. The quality of the connection was outstanding.
The second experiment (Cassandra I2) featured collaboration of instrumentalists under the direction of Dinu Ghezzo at NYU with the renowned percussionist Jack Gilfoy at IUPUI. The picture and sound quality was very good, but there were problems of latency and feedback that needed to be resolved. This experiment was coordinated with the Toronto Music 2000 International Music Conference, where Dr. Fred Rees and Dr. John Gilbert presented their work in distance education and distance collaboartion.
This third experiment has had considerable more texting taking place and trouble-shooting and resolving feed back and synchronization problems. Communication has been through a listerv providing a record of exchanges among the participants. The connection between New York and Indiana represents video conferencing technology, point to point. The internet has been a difficult medium for synchronous events because of bandwidth and latency problems, but interesting and productive encounters have taken place using CUSeeMe and iVisit to connect composers, performers and educators. Possibilities introduced by broadband high speed connections challenge our creative and educational mindsets and open the way to extending the interactive creative process.
Fred Rees, IUPUI
Musicians for Monday Morning
Jack Gilfoy, Percussion, IUPUI
Technical Staff
Philip Galanter, NYU
Schedule:
EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
9:30 -10:30 a.m. Preliminary Connection and testing. Rehearsal
11:10 a.m.Introduction of Connectivity and issues of the Internet and I2
11:15 a.m. collaborative music performances
Corcavado, (Quiet Night and Quiet Stars)
12:00 p.m. sign-off
Score of "Fla Vodou" Please note that this piece will be adapted by Gilfoy and Beyer since it is originally for 6 players. Tom Beyer writes:
Thanks to everyone involved with this project.
John Gilbert, NYU
Tomy Beyer, Percussion, NYU
Wendy Luck, Flute, NYU
Drew Waters, Bass, NYU
Jeff Bary, NYU (Camera and I2 Connection)
Tom Doczi, NYU (Sound Engineer)
Chianan Yen, NYU (photo archive)
Doug Pearson, IU
Gary Michael Curto, IUPUI
11:35 a.m. Q&A and discussion
Color, An Improvisation
Fla Vodou
Jack Gilfoy and Tom Beyer
Genji
Morning
Wendy Luck, Flute & Vocals
Drew Waters, Bass
Jack Gilfoy, Tom Beyer, Percussion
"Jack Gilfoy and I will begin with an improvised piece and then we will do a piece based on "Fla Vodou." Then,Bassist Drew Waters and Flutist Wendy Luck will join us for three Brazilian pieces and if there is time we will close with another improvised piece with the whole ensemble."