Netrooms: The Long Feedback
Pedro, 2008-2009

Join in “The Long Feedback” and contribute to a nine-site network performance!

Netrooms: The Long Feedback is a participative network piece which invites the public to contribute to an extended feedback loop and delay line across the internet. The work explores the juxtaposition of multiple spaces as the acoustic, the social and the personal environment becomes permanently networked. The performance consists of live manipulation of multiple real-time streams from different locations which receive a common sound source. Netrooms celebrates the private acoustic environment as defined by the space between one audio input (microphone) and output (loudspeaker). The performance of the piece consists of live mixing a feedback loop with the signals from each stream.

Listen
Performance at ISEA, 28th August 2009 - Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast
Recorded live during ISEA on the 28th August 2009 at the Sonic Arts Research Centre Belfast. Performers: Pedro Rebelo (Belfast), Alain Renaud (Banff), Pauline Oliveros (Troy, NY), Owen Green (York), Jerome Joy (Nice), Georg Hajdu (Hamburg), Franziska Schroeder (Killyleagh, Co. Down) and Ken Fields (Calgary)

Performance at ISEA, 7th August 2009 - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast: 1 | 2 | 3
Recorded live during ISEA on the 6th August 2009 at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Performers: Pedro Rebelo (Belfast), Alain Renaud (Bournemouth), Katharine Norman (Cambridge), Owen Green (Leith), Kala Pierson (NYC), Jason Geistweidt (Chicago), Ken Fields (Calgary)

Performance at CCRMA, Stanford University 2009
Participants: Jerome Joy (Nice), Alejo Duque (Nice), Alain Renaud (SARC), Chris Chong (Second Life)


Participate
To participate in future performances of netrooms contact P.Rebelo@qub.ac.uk and we will send you a PD patch. You can participate from anywhere in the world with a broadband connection. All you need to do is load the patch during the performance times and listen... You can make a sound, be silent, play music, talk to others and listen... but remember it’s a long feedback loop!

Technical Requirements
- 1 laptop with Microphone (internal or external) and Loudspeaker (internal or external)
- Pd-extended 0.39.3-extended (www.puredata.org)
- Patch provided when you email us
- Broadband Connection with UDP and TCP ports 8100 open

Performances

Performance at ISEA, 28th August 2009 - Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast
Recorded live during ISEA on the 28th August 2009 at the Sonic Arts Research Centre Belfast. Performers: Pedro Rebelo (Belfast), Alain Renaud (Banff), Pauline Oliveros (Troy, NY), Owen Green (York), Jerome Joy (Nice), Georg Hajdu (Hamburg), Franziska Schroeder (Killyleagh, Co. Down) and Ken Fields (Calgary)

Performance at ISEA, 7th August 2009 - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
Recorded live during ISEA on the 6th August 2009 at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Performers: Pedro Rebelo (Belfast), Alain Renaud (Bournemouth), Katharine Norman (Cambridge), Owen Green (Leith), Kala Pierson (NYC), Jason Geistweidt (Chicago), Ken Fields (Calgary)

3rd March 2009 Aix-en-Provence, France
Local version with participants from the Audio Connect? symposium

2nd April 2008 Berkeley, California
CNMAT, University of California Berkeley
The performance of “Netrooms: The Long Feedback” was integrated in a concert of music from the Sonic Arts Research Centre. The piece will begin at 8:30pm
Participants: Michael Zbyszynski (Berkeley), Jerome Joy (Nice), Alejo Duque (Nice), Alain Renaud (SARC), Chris Chong (Second Life)

4th April 2008 Stanford, California
CCRMA, Stanford University
The performance of “Netrooms: The Long Feedback” is integrated in a concert of music from the Sonic Arts Research Centre. The piece will begin at 8:30pmParticipants: Jerome Joy (Nice), Alejo Duque (Nice), Alain Renaud (SARC), Chris Chong (Second Life)

11th December 2008, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast
Participants: Windfried Ritsch (Graz), Jerome Joy (Nice), Andrea Szigetvári (Budapest), Georg Hajdu (Hamburg), Michael Zbyszynski (Berkeley)

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