Archive
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- The Quintet.net workshop at the Autumn festival of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (October 2-4, 2006) was well attended and very productive. The six participating students created a charming new multimedia piece called "Streets-Parks" in just a few days. Compliments!
- The entry "Music in the Global Village" by the European Bridges Ensemble was chosen as one of five projects to receive funding as part of the Bipolar Projekt (an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation). The project supports a concert at the Connecting Media conference in Hamburg, a DVD production as well as a conference on network music on occasion of the opening of the Budapest Music Forum in September 2007. A new website at http://www.globalvillagemusic.net/ will keep you informed about project activities.
- Bridges was performed again at a memorable concert at the T-U-B-E in Munich which also featured flautist and multimedia artist Anne La Berge on April 27, 2006.
- British video artists Stewart Collinson joined the Bridges ensemble (which was renamed European Bridges Ensemble) on the occasion of a performance at the Budapest Making New Waves festival on February 26, 2006.
- Music journalist Bettina Brinker published an article on January 4, 2006 named "Eine kleine Netzmusik" in the Hamburger Abendblatt - the largest local newspaper.
- The October 9, 2005 Quintet.net concert at the Hamburg Museum for Kommunikation was covered by the local public cable TV station TIDE. View the Quicktime stream.
- Music journalist Bettina Brinker published an article on January 4, 2006 named "Eine kleine Netzmusik" in the Hamburger Abendblatt - the largest local newspaper.
- The October 9, 2005 Quintet.net concert at the Hamburg Museum for Kommunikation was covered by the local public cable TV station TIDE. View the Quicktime stream.
- A permanent ensemble for Internet performance was set up by Johannes Kretz (Wien), Kai Niggemann (Münster), Ivana Ognjanovic (Hamburg/Belgrade), marlon Schumacher (Stuttgart) and Andrea Szigetvári (Budapest). Their collaborative piece "Bridges" was premiered at the 2005 Elektronische Nacht in Stuttgart on June 17, 2005.
- The new 2005 release of Quintet.net, available for both Macintosh and Windows XP platforms, features an elegant, OS X-like brushed-metal graphical user interface. Quintet.net now uses event buffering adjustable for each player to compensate for network jitter. This is a useful feature if preservation of rhythmic precision is desired.
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- A paper on Quintet.net has been published in the current February 2005 issue of Leonardo Journal.
- Quintet.net was a featured topic in the 2004/05 issue of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (with CD-ROM)
- The Hamburg Network Composers' Collective is a permanent ensemble for local performances with Quintet.net consisting of: Ignazio Mendez, Oliver Frei, Moxi Beidenegl, Martin v. Frantzius and Donghee Nam performing on laptops; Cornelia Geissler, VJ; Hans-Gunter Lock, sound; and Georg Hajdu, conductor.