TELEMUSIC #1 - Premiere performance
Randall Packer and Steve Bradley

Presented by the Sonic Circuits International Electronic Music Festival,
Leonardo Electronic Almanac and the Walker Art Center

Friday, November 3, 8-11 pm
Live from the Landmark Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

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TELEMUSIC #1
Networked Live Performance

With Telemusic #1, the demarcation between physical and virtual space,
between on-line and local proximity, between the self and the network,
converges and blurs into a shared, participatory experience through
sound and our attention to its spatial and transformational qualities.

There is a long history of the distribution of sound in space through a
variety of orchestrational and electronic techniques. Here, the source
for the distribution of sound is the live presence and interaction with
the network, communications technologies that have brought about the
dissolution of temporal and geographic boundaries since the invention
of the telegraph.

In Telemusic #1, we observe the distribution of the human spirit and
the dissolution of the body through the network as we submit ourselves
to increasing interaction with telematic systems. Here, the notion of
new spatial, virtual territories as landscape for human experience is
superimposed on the hyper-dramatic stage where statements concerning the
network and its potential for social and aesthetic transformation are
voiced by an "Artist-Evangelist." The on-line and on-site audience in
turn collectively confront, challenge, and celebrate this assumption by
forming their own telematic identities such as the Transcendentalist,
the Cynic, the Lurker, and the Anarchist. Together they join as an
ensemble of disparate voices brought together by collapsed geographies
and fractured ideologies concerning the impact of telematics on the
human condition.

You can participate in the performance of Telemusic #1 by accessing the
on-line performance site: http://www.telemusic.org during the evening of
the performance on Friday, November 3, beginning at 8:00 PM CST.
Information will be available at the telemusic.org site beginning
Monday, October 30th.

Telemusic #1 is a collaborative performance work by Randall Packer and
Steve Bradley, along with John Young (Network Design), Gregory Kuhn
(Sound Design), Christopher Styles (Web Design), Jorge Castro (Web
Design), Andrew Bruntel (Web/Flash Design), Geoff Janjua (Software
Design) and Jason Corso (Software Design). Special thanks to Bionicbox.
A production of Zakros InterArts and art@radio.