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Our recent collaboration with Roger Mills and the Ethernet Orchestra worked out really well and there is some material online now.

Detailed information about the project can be found here:
http://www.eartrumpet.org/research.html#ethernetorchstra

“Distant Presences” – Live Networked A/V Performance
Sunday Night At The Movies, FBi Radio 94.5 FM Sydney and Visitors Studio.
Sunday 20th June 9-10 pm (Sydney) 12-1 pm (UK) 1-2pm (Central Europe) 8-9 am (Londrina, Brazil).
From the project site: “Distant Presences” is an improvised sound work which reflects the nature and aesthetic of the ensembles dispersed interaction. As divergent musical cultures meet in improvisation, the work is a meditation on the multifarious nature of location and being. It forms part of an ongoing series of networked improvisations curated by Furthernoise.org for “Explorations in Sound” Vol 4.

Featuring Live Performances from:

Sydney, Australia.
Bukhchuluun Ganburged – Mongolian Horse fiddle and throat singing.
Yavuz Uydu Turkish Oud and Bendir.
Roger Mills – Processed Trumpets.

Londrina, Brazil – Chris Vine Guitar (ex Blurt, Factory Records)
Braunschweig, Germany – Martin Slawig Laptop Electronics and Max/MSP processing.

VJ’s
London, United Kingdom – Graziano Milano.
Munich, Germany – Helen Varley Jamieson.
Sydney, Australia – Neil Jenkins.

View A/V Performance

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This is a photo taken by Neil Jenkins of the performance Live at NIME++2010 • Live Networked Performance
Bon Marche Studio, University of Sydney, 17th June, 2010.

Featuring:
Sydney.
Bukhchuluun Ganburged – Mongolian horse fiddle and throat singing
Roger Mills – Processed trumpets.

Braunschweig, Germany.
Martin Slawig – Laptop electronics and Max/MSP processing.

Here is a tri-screen video of a jam in june.

We are continuing our series of online collaborations, this time initiated by Sydney based musician and composer Roger Mills.
The Ethernet Orchestra is the research project of Roger Mills at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, exploring ‘methodologies and ethnographies of cross cultural improvisation, user experience and computer mediated collaboration as well as the musical and sonic boundaries of divergent cultures in collision’.
For this new collaboration we all use the eJamming software, which allows jamming together with only 150 ms of delay. This is a great improvement compared with our earlier collaborations.
There will be two concerts in June, bringing together several musicians on two /three different continents.
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Thursday, June 17, 5.30 pm Sydney / 9.30 am Braunschweig
Concert Program NIME 2010 (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), Sydney
Live in Sydney: Roger Mills – Processed Trumpet
Bukhchuluun Ganburged – Mongolian Horse Fiddle and Throat Singing (AU)
Live in Braunschweig: Martin Slawig – Objects, Electronics Max/MSP
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Sunday, June 20, 11 pm  Sydney / 9 am Londrina / 1 pm Braunschweig
Live in Sydney: Yavuz Uydu – Oud & Bendir, Roger Mills – Processed Trumpet
Bukhchuluun Ganburged – Mongolian Horse Fiddle and Throat Singing (AU)
Live in Londrina, Brasil: Chris Vine – Guitar
Live in Braunschweig: Martin Slawig – Objects, Laptop (Max/MSP)

Live broadcast on radio fbi, Sydney and internet live stream at http://www.fbiradio.com

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We are proud to announce the inauguration of the ‘Kunstmühle’, a new space for producing and presenting performing arts, dance, experimental audiovisual and sound art.
The Kunstmühle is an artist-run working studio and intimate performance/installation space located in a former industrial building for mill production in Braunschweig.
It is now the collaborative home of the artist groups artblau, blackhole-factory and Theater im Glashaus.

After 3 month of construction work, renovation and setup the space now reached an operative condition which allows us to go on with our artistic work – and to have a party ! ! !

program for June 4:

7 p.m. Opening Celebration
TiG – Theater im Glashaus: Calibans Insel – Theater
artblau – Deter/ Pirici: Horse Opera – Dance
TiG + David Bickerstaff: SONG – Film

outdoor stage: live Music

program for June 5:
5 p.m. Opening Celebration
Children`s Dance Show
TiG + David Bickerstaff: SONG – Film
artblau – Zufit Simon: Wild Thing – Dance
blackhole-factory: Störfall – Concert

outdoor stage:live music

exhibitions June 4 +5:
Gerhard Scharnhorst: paintings
Martin Kroll: WEIT, photographs
blackhole-factory: Galata Songlines, interactive audio visual installation

barbecue, homemade cakes, drinks and refreshments at the “Kunstmühle-Bar”

free entrance! ! !

How  to find us:
Kunstmühle is located on the ground of Bühler industries, entrance from Hildesheimer Strasse,  turn right after ‘Bauhaus’, straight on until ‘Bühler Tor 2′

we got some photos from our collaboration at SomewhereThere Toronto, taken by our friend June Pak. Click on the photo to view the slideshow:

some photos of our collaboration with Noiseborder Ensemble Windsor, performance MasterControl at Lambton Tower, University of Windsor, march 4.

We will move to a new studio end of march. Here are some photos

Sunday February 28, 2010
The NOW Series at Somewhere There presents:

From Germany
Blackhole Factory: Martin Slawig and Elke Utermohlen
with special guests from the Toronto improvising community.

8pm
Martin Slawig- computer, found objects and video
Elke Utermöhlen- voice
Ken Aldcroft- guitar
Pete Johnston- double bass

9pm
Martin Slawig- computer, found objects and video
Elke Utermöhlen- voice
David Sait- guzheng
William Davison- amplified objects
Julie Lassonde- movement
Paul Dutton- voice

Somewhere There
340 Dufferin St.
Toronto, ON
8pm $8