Soundwwwalk performances are an emerging genre of live browser-based
performances where improvisation meets plugin sound-collage and
multitab mixing, shamelessly blending the traditions of acoustic
ecologies, pro-surfing and laptop performance. The artists take the
audience on a sonic detour through the World Wide Web.
A Soundwwwalk considers the act of surfing the World Wide Web as a form of sonic action in the networked space of the Internet, a place where multitudes of sound sources, sonic events and acoustic phenomena converge. All performances follow the Soundwwwalk One-Line-Manifesto: “All sound sources must be played in a browser, must not be self-produced and must be publicly accessible.” The artists perform their Soundwwwalks in person on stage or transmit the notation, sometimes in real time, to a local interpreter operating the browser.
The performance series was initiated in 2009, inspired by the world wide web becoming the largest possible library of sonic artefacts and recordings, considering any sound and video file uploaded to the web as potential but fluctuative material for sonic ideas and actions.
A Soundwwwalk considers the act of surfing the World Wide Web as a form of sonic action in the networked space of the Internet, a place where multitudes of sound sources, sonic events and acoustic phenomena converge. All performances follow the Soundwwwalk One-Line-Manifesto: “All sound sources must be played in a browser, must not be self-produced and must be publicly accessible.” The artists perform their Soundwwwalks in person on stage or transmit the notation, sometimes in real time, to a local interpreter operating the browser.
The performance series was initiated in 2009, inspired by the world wide web becoming the largest possible library of sonic artefacts and recordings, considering any sound and video file uploaded to the web as potential but fluctuative material for sonic ideas and actions.
Upcoming
August 2 at Experimenta Melbourne with Andreas Miranda, Antuong Nguyen and Christopher LG HillPast
06/2012 at Code Of Contingency, 319 Scholes, Brooklyn New York03/2012 at SPSounds with NIMk, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
11/2011 If Not Now – Royal College of Art, London
09/2011 ISEA2011 Istanbul (Panel)
11/2010 iMAL Brussels
11/2010 WORM Rotterdam
05/2010 MQ Wien
Artists
Michael Pollard, Joel Holmberg, Peter Moosgaard, Will Schrimshaw, Julian Palacz, Jamie Allen, Bernhard Garnicnig, Constant Dullaart, Ceci MossBooking/Contact
bgarnicnig at gmail dot com**new unrelated studio work (;