Attempting to more accurately represent the process of audio loop collaboration on the network.

Streams from Perth, Los Angeles and Linz were looped, the nodes taking input from the node before, manipulating it (adding tones and effects, massaging the sound stream) and passing it on. At the venue, we took all the nodes in the loop and fed the streams into a quadrophonic speaker system. Rotating the position of the sources at a speed that matched the delay / lag of the encoding / decoding process, we attempted to lay the lag time, the sound sitting inside the encoding and decoding sections of the network, and lay that around the loop of speakers in the performance / presentation space.

Contributors at the nodes were:

• Perth: Jeremy Hicks and Malcolm Riddoch (Enargeia), working from the Imago space.
• Linz: Martin Greunz and Gerd Trautner (Time's Up and Yuri) in the Time's Up harbourside laboratories.
• Los Angeles: Joachin Gossman (CalArts) at the CalArts space.

At the venue, Jesse Gilbert (CalArts) and Tim Boykett (Times Up) battled with the streams and the matrix mixer.

We all felt as though this began to show the idea of what we wanted from a representation of the streaming loop - but still not yet completely. Research and more public experiments will follow. Please get in touch if you are interested in participating.

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