Dispersionology and Other Tales
*May 10, 1:00-2:30
Listen @ Free Radio SAIC: https://freeradiosaic.org/
Watch @ YouTube: Dispersionology and Other Tales - YouTube
Doug Van Nord, PhD, student of Pauline Oliveros and founder of Dispersion Lab for distributed performance and sensorial immersion, celebrates 20 years of telematic performances with an ambitious transnational performance next week. A full list of the ~50 performers around the globe is below.
Garrett Laroy Johnson and CCAM is organizing a Chicago node in collaboraiton with Free Radio SAIC. He is joined by Eric Leonardson and Gordon Fung representing ATS, Sound, and FVNMA on this global stage.
*performance statement
In the world of physics, dispersion describes a phenomenon in which the rate of propagation of a wave in a medium, its phase velocity, is dependent on its frequency. This can be seen in light, sound, gravity waves, etc. Its a property of telecommunications signals, including the ulses of light in optical fibre cables, describing how the signal broadens and spreads out as it moves across the channel. Dispersion therefore is inherent in the medium that more-and-more binds us these days, in the movements of light pulses that transports our attention, and our listening, around the globe. A beautiful consequence of dispersion is a change in the angle of refraction of different frequencies, leading to a prismatic opening up of a full colour spectrum from incoming light. This ability to broaden out as signals propagate through the network reflects a much wider expansion of distributed listening and sounding that is made possible in the context of telematic musicking.
Full list of Participants
| Dispersion Lab: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Doug Van Nort | soundpainting, GREIS/electronics, voice | Dispersion Lab, Toronto, ON | |
| CCRMA | Chris Chafe | celletto | CCRMA |
| guitar | |||
| guitar | |||
| Chicago | Eric Leonardson | springboard, electronics | SAIC, Chicago |
| Garrett Johnson | electronics | SAIC, Chicago | |
| Gordon Fung | Sandin image processing OR no-input mixer | SAIC, Chicago | |
| Oslo | Krisin Norderval | voice | UiO, Oslo |
| Masoud Niknafs | vocals (Arabic tenor) | UiO, Oslo | |
| Jack Hardwick | Violin, Live Electronics | UiO, Oslo | |
| Fabian Stordalen | Bass guitar, Guitar, No-input mixing | UiO, Oslo | |
| Kristian Eicke | Guitar (percussive) on lap | UiO, Oslo | |
| Nino Jakeli | Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard | UiO, Oslo | |
| Aysima Baba | Accordion | UiO, Oslo | |
| Alexander Wastnidge | Guitars, Live Electronics | UiO, Oslo | |
| Emin Memis | Ney Flute, Drums | UiO, Oslo | |
| Bogotá | |||
| Ricardo Arias | Balloons? | Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá | |
| Leonel Vásquez | ? | Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá | |
| (student names) | Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá | ||
| Various Locations: | Dana Reason | piano/inside piano | Oregon |
| Scot Gresham-Lancaster | Maine | ||
| Zovi | Theremin | Albany, NY | |
| Cássia Carrascoza Bomfim | Flute | Brazil | |
| Al Margolis | violin/contact mic(s)/objects | Chester, NY | |
| Colin James Gibson | Guitar | Toronto, ON | |
| Glen Hall | Soprano saxophone, contrabass clarinet | Brampton, ON | |
| Chris Anderson-Lundy | Saxophone | Toronto, ON | |
| Sarah Weaver | Conducting | New York | |
| Kai Kubota-Enright | piano (with or without preparation), various soft synths, with or without fixed media elements | Montreal, QC | |
| Theodore Haber | violin | Montreal, QC | |
| Anne Bourne | cello | Toronto, ON | |
| Scott L. Miller | Kyma | Minneapolis, MN | |
| Ambrose Pottie | percussion and electronics | Toronto, ON | |
| Emma Pope | Piano | Montreal, QC | |
| Bill Gilliam | Electric piano with loop machine & effects | Toronto, ON | |
| Holland Hopson | Tuscaloosa, AL | ||
| Various (eao member) | |||
| Bjorn Eriksson | analog electronics (feedback boxes) | Solleftjea, Sweden | |
| Viv Corringham | voice, electronics | New York | |
| Tom Bickley | EWI + Max processing | Berkeley, CA | |
| Rory Hoy | bass, electronics | Brampton, ON | |
| Omar Shabbar | guitar, electronics | Toronto, ON | |
| Kathy Kennedy | voice, electronics | Montreal, QC |