The concert!

[BJ]

This may be spam to some of you but i dont care, im going to mail it
anyway.

This very last weekend i was at the Stockholm international 
electronic music festival.

As usually the concerts is a mix of live performance and tape music.
Most of the times it is tape music and that's why it can be some boring
in the long run.

Now, there are some nice things and some bad things 
about electronic music festivals held in Sweden.

The bad things is that this kind of people that are arranging the 
festivals are in many ways arranging them for the same minded kind
of people.That means that you as a ordinary homosapiens with your own 
electronic music studio are not invited to play at those concerts.

It wont get you to play even if you have had your studio for 1 zillion
years!

No, you have to ha a reputationable background so to speak,that means
playing contrabass since the age of 7, studying in a university
for 10 years, playing for a professor in the age of 80,
attending at strange seminars every week,talking about the relevance of
the sonic sound when an egg are dropped to the flor,,,,etc etc etc.
This is somehow the academia play ground...........Or not?

Now, the nice things are the possibility for any one the globe
to attend to IACM and win it and be brodcasted in some nationally TV and
radio
stations. This year some dude from Belgium won the contest.
You do win some money to and you gain some of the reputation i 
mentioned above.
So go on, attend now people!

And the other nice thing that may happen is some strange 
live performances may appear.

This weekend at Sunday it was a nice concert, there was a live concert
over
satellite and internet at the same time at three different places!

The places involved was Darmstadt with four persons playing live,
Karlsruhe with three persons playing live and Stockholm with three
persons performing live.

Each place had it own big video screen 10 by 10 meters divided by tree 
sections so the public could see and hear what was going on at the other
two places!
Each performer had their own video monitor with some sync 
and performance related information.
It was quite odd to know that the physical present 
audience was divided by two other places by 1000km away!!Darmstadt and
Karlsruhe.

So this concert was a sort of a cyber concert with the satellite
connection as the centre
pole of the event.

Any one who was on the net this weekend could attend the concert and
play along
with the live performance and it could be seen and heard by uss in the
audience.

And people did, it was quite amazing to se this happen and i
guess it all was synched by showing some time frame clock info at 
the performancers video monitor? 
Nevertheless to me ears it was synched.

This concert was broadcasted via radio and TV in Sweden and Germany.
Perhaps some of you did hear or saw the concert?

The people attending to the concert via internet was displayed on a
world map
by another video screen in Karlsruhe.As son as some one triggered the
the key or whatever triggered by the net, a dot or a part of the country
would
turn white from where the origin was, and a sound was played.

Eumsat and Deutsche Telekom AG stand for the satellite connection.
They used some whether satellites for this event.

A very interesting concert i might say.

My question is ,have this type of concert taken place 
before or was this the very first one?

I do know that Farlight CMI vas involved in the 80's with a 
satellite connection thing where two CMI III was connected together
and played simultaneously, but as far as i know that was not a real
concert!


By the way i saw a CMI I at a music shop, 
how uggly it looked, 8 inch diskdrives?
But it had a nice light pen.
Is anyone using a CMI I or II today?

BJ [in the land of odd concerts]