June 19th Connection: On Monday morning, June 19, 2000, a cyberspace and time collaboration that has been developing through asynchronoous collaboration will take a step toward Internet II experiments in music making and music education projects. 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. The June 19th connection between Indiana and New york establishes a cooperative effort between IUPUI and NYU that may eventually evolve into collaborations in music education and music making using all the resources of the internet and digital technology.
Featured Monday morning will be Celina Bordallo Charlier, a flautist from Brazil, studying in the NYU graduate program in music performance. She has been studying music technology as a means of extending her sphere as a performer and in exploring how music technology can enhance performance and teaching. She will perform Hans-Martin Linde's "Music for a Bird" (1968), a piece for recorder that uses extended techniques.
!0:45 -11:00 a.m. Preliminary Connection and testing
11:10 a.m. discuss the Cassandra project - particularly in plans for
utilizing Internet 2, and the multidisciplinary nature of the
initiative.
11:20 a.m. - question and answer with our audience about aspects of
the project...Brief discussion of where the collaborative projects may go next
11:30 a.m. - Celine performs, after she has done, could
give her assessment of trying to work in this medium - maybe with Q & A from
our audience regarding this process as well about the work and the
performance (10 minutes)
11:40 a.m. Some group assessment, from both sides, regarding the session in terms
of transmission quality, mechanics of broadcasting and communicating in this
manner.
The World Wide Web can be a powerful medium for collaboration and exchange. As students and teachers publish their ideas in the form of text, music, sounds, images, and videos, ideas develop from the exchanges that provide insight and and enable collaborators to elaborate on the expressive ideas presented. With this medium, we can quickly assimilate and edit materials, making the internet a dynamic, changing archive of personal and communal ideas. We are at the beginning of tremendous potential within the context of these new technologies as tools for teaching, learning, and making music.