Remote Performance: Skåne

Remote Performance is an innovative project that will be conducted during the autumn of 2022 with the aim to create and explore a digital environment where people, regardless their ability, can be creative together from a distance and, also, perform for an audience. Using sensors, avatars and biological modulation of music data, conditions are created for the participants to communicate a state of consciousness, mind, and body. Through that, they will achieve a maximum sense of reality and a personally communicative “here and now.”

ShareMusic has initiated a collaboration with Stanford University (USA) concerning reduction of so-called latency – a new and technologically advanced research area. Latency, or delay, is today one of the largest obstacles for creating music in real time via internet. The uniqueness of Remote Performance is that it is formed with inclusion and accessibility in focus and that users will be able to participate from home with their own equipment, without any demands on high-tech specialty hardware.

Remote Performance is meant to work as a digital platform where communication technology, sensors (that measures pulse, heart rate variability, breathing, electrical brain activity, EEG) and algorithms that contribute to reduce the latency and improve the creative “present moment”. Within the frame of this initiative, ShareMusic has also started to collaborate with X-System Ltd (UK) concerning sensor technology, analysis, and prediction of musical emotion. The musicians of the project play a crucial part as they explore, test, and challenge the new technology aimed to allow them to create or modulate music and sound directly through their thoughts and emotions.

Trailer from the artistic residency and sharing.

Sharing on October 27 2022

Remote Performance will be conducted with a residency at Inter Arts Center in Malmö in October. In connection to the residency, a so-called sharing was performed on October 27 where the musicians were situated on different locations around Skåne and the audience was physically located at Inter Arts Center in Malmö.

Remote Performance is part of a specialized initiative where Region Skåne and Inter Arts Center at Lund’s University (IAC) wish to contribute to increased conditions for artistic creation through technical solutions, digital tools, and artistic method development.

Read more about ShareMusic's work with developing a Remote Performance Platform here.

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