Ping Melody
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Preview (screencast) of the new incarnation of Paweł Janicki's Ping Melody performance.
Ping Melody is a comprehensive musical performance intercepting and sonifying various types of data, mainly related to the structure of information exchange in the global communication networks. It is a sense allowing the perception of the data itself - which a man lacks - based on the possibilities offered by music and sonification.
For many years - since the premiere at the WRO 03 GLOBALICA 10th International Media Art Biennale in 2003 - of Ping Melody's mutations and development, the nature of the performance has changed: it has evolved from a musical form utilizing the dynamics and structure of planetary electronic communication to the form that binds communication, environmental and satellite data - a kind of global sonar that allows you to feel the continuous and autonomous stream of information produced by human civilization.
A most important element of the performance is still the musician playing the acoustic instrument: the sound of the acoustic instrument is a sonic material and basis for all musical forms and structures that emerge during the performance of Ping Melody thanks to the intuition of the musician experiencing the data and their patterns. In addition, the musician, as an individual, puts his/her own mastery in playing the instrument against the final informational representation of the sum of all the techno- and intellispheres to which we have access.
The sound of the instrument is sampled in real time, sent via the Internet to the tested locations and servers, modulated with data and played - the musician can treat it like an echo (hence the analogy with the sonar: data shapes the sound as the shape of the sea bottom forms the reflections of the sonara), a partner, or a disturbing noise of induced by civilization excess and overload.
more: paweljanicki.jp/projects_pingmelody_main_en.html
The above performance documentation is screencast of tests in the artist's studio (with flute samples by author).
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