PLAYING THE NETWORK: THE USE OF TIME DELAYS AS MUSICAL DEVICES
Juan-Pablo Cáceres, Alain Renaud · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2008
The native time delay of audio transmission over high speed networks is used to create musical devices to play on and with the network. Different strategies that have been part of the practice of the Net vs. Net collective— a permanent network ensemble playing exclusively over wide area digital networks—are discussed. A tool to synchronize displaced musicians visually cue the performers and the audience. It also activates synchronized musical processes. The latency is used to create delay effects and reverbs embedded on the bidirectional path using feedback delay network filters. We also present a technique to play distributed rhythmic patterns over the network that are designed to sound different—with diverging rhythmic and phase structures—on each location. 1.