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The Cybernetic Orchestra will be performing in a 6-hour-long worldwide telematic jam session, organized by Electroacoustics at Concordia University, as part of the New Adventures in Sound Art’s (NAISA) Deep Wireless Festival 2012. The jam session – entitled “Hug the World” includes performances of artists from 50 locations around the world, including US, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Greece, China, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

The session runs from 3 PM until 9 PM (EST) and will be webcast on NAISA’s internet radio: http://www.naisa.ca/webcast/index.html

Potential performers include: Alessandro Fogar,Bernardo Piñero, Bridges Ben, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Byron Dean, C.R. Kasprzyk, Chusé Fernández, Claudio Rivera-Seguel, Constantine Katsiris, Damaris Baker, Dan Godston, Das Bluul, Cybernetic Orchestra, Doug Van Nort, Ede Cameron, Eliana Rosales, Elizabeth De Vegt, Ernesto Romeo, Florian Hartlieb, Gerardo Della Vecchia, Gregory Emfietzis, Gro Sarauw, Guillaume Loizillon, Hans Clebsch, Ian Whalley, Ian and Laura Birse, Ivan Sanchez, Ivan Zavada, Jeffrey Sinibaldi, Jennifer Ruzicka, Jimmy Miklavcic, Joel Ong, Johannes Bergmark, john sobocan, Jon Aveyard, José (Tuti) Fornari, Juan A. Romero, Juan De Cicco, Judy Dunaway, Julian Brooks, Julian Scordato, Kieran Ruffles, Lukas Simonis, marcella mandanici, Marcos Fernandes, Martin Back, Michael Palumbo, Roger Mills, Natalia Pajariño, Norah Lorway, Pablo Anglade, Per Platou, Pierre Jolivet, Pierre Massat, Raphael Roter, Raúl Minsburg, Ricardo Dal Farra, richard moule, Robert MacKay, Sally McIntyre, Scott Colburn, Sharon Stewart, Stefan Smulovitz, Stelios Giannoulakis, Steven Hall, Travis Johns, Ximena Alarcon, and others.

A huge thanks to Eldad Tsabary and NAISA for organizing the jam session!

The event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/389324054446220/
Announcement on Concordia’s website: http://music.concordia.ca/news-and-events/events/hug-the-world-telematic-jam-session.php
Deep Wireless Festival: http://www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/

The debut album “esp.beat” from the Cybernetic Orchestra at McMaster University was released in a special CD release event (“Resonant”) at the Factory Media Arts Centre during Hamilton’s monthly James Street N art crawl last Friday (April 13 2012). The entire album is available online via soundcloud – here’s the link: http://soundcloud.com/cyberneticorchestra/sets/esp-beat

The album has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-a-like license (CC BY-NC-SA).

How is the orchestra performing this music you may ask? A lot of it is live coding using Chuck and the miniAudicle. Some of it is some MaxMSP instruments created by orchestra members. Behind the scenes we are using rough prototypes of the espTools software (forthcoming) for communication and beat sharing.

The official release of the Cybernetic Orchestra’s first album – the culmination of three years work on live coding, gestural control, network art and experimental sound performance – will take place during the event “Resonant” at Hamilton’s Factory Media Arts Centre, on Friday April 13 from 7-11 PM. Link to the Factory’s website: link

Special performances by ESCHATON (live electronic manipulations of saxophone and programmed beats) and by the graduate students in the course Sound as Art and Research at McMaster University (collaborative videomusique, and live coding of audio + video). The full Cybernetic Orchestra will perform at the end of the evening, from 9:30-11 PM.

The Cybernetic Orchestra is McMaster University’s laptop orchestra, an innovative electronic music ensemble that improvises with live programming in front of the audience. Directed by Multimedia Faculty member Dr. David Ogborn, the orchestra has performed in Hamilton, Montréal and Toronto – at TEDx conferences, at new music festivals, and myriad other events, alongside a growing roster of artistic friends and collaborators.

RESONANT: Innovations in Sound & Projection Art is curated by Amy McIntosh, a multimedia student at McMaster University and a member of the Cybernetic Orchestra. Amy also leads the Factory’s Youth Media Group.

In the spirit of open-source software (release early, release often) we hereby release the espBeat software, part of the espTools software created for and around the Cybernetic Orchestra at McMaster University. espBeat allows the performers in a laptop orchestra or other electronic ensemble to share a common, synchronized beat across multiple devices, while compensating for the problems potentially introduced by typical network hardware (missing or delayed beats). Click the following link to download – and use at your own risk!: espBeat-0.05