{"id":10317,"date":"2019-03-05T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10317"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T09:52:36","slug":"new-release-trondheim-emps-poke-it-with-a-stick-joining-the-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=10317","title":{"rendered":"New release: Trondheim EMP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poke It With A Stick \/ Joining The Bots\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/releases\/146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cronica146-2019_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cronica146-2019_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cronica146-2019_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cronica146-2019_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cronica146-2019_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cronica146-2019_1440.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica is very happy to announce the release of Trondheim EMP&#8217;s new double CD \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poke It With A Stick \/ Joining The Bots\u00e2\u20ac\u009d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3363128749\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/cronica.bandcamp.com\/album\/poke-it-with-a-stick-joining-the-bots\">Poke It With A Stick \/ Joining The Bots by Trondheim EMP<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This project explores cross-adaptive processing as a radical intervention in the communication between performing musicians. Digital audio analysis and processing techniques are used to enable features of one sound to inform the processing of another. This allows the actions of one performer to directly influence another performer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sound, and doing so by means of the acoustic signal produced on the instrument. This may be reciprocated, too: the sound of the second performer may in turn influence the sound processing of the first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project includes researchers, performers, programmers and a philosopher. From 2016-18 it was funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and the Norwegian University for Technology and Science, with collaborations from De Montfort University, Maynooth University, Norwegian Academy of Music, Queen Mary University of London and University of California San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is strongly based in practical experimentation, to explore these novel techniques in real musical interaction. For this, we rely on collaboration with a large group of excellent performers, many of whom are presented in the performances here. We are deeply grateful for the relentless energy and creative effort that the performers have contributed in trying to negotiate the pitfalls, swirls, vortices and uphill struggles of cross-adaptivity while at the same time integrating it with their existing deeply rooted practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two albums represent different stages of the process of working with cross-adaptive techniques. The first album (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poke It With a Stick\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) represents the exploration, stumbling, finding, missing, and trickle of possible ways to tackle these challenges. These tracks were recorded during the main research period from late 2016 to early 2018. The second (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Joining the Bots\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) represents the assembly, knitting together, gathering of explored solutions, and composing of (still wildly) running streams. These tracks were all recorded in May 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cross-adaptive processing adds potential for instability \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but this often forces us to explore and innovate. The performer has more to take in: anything they produce acts on the sound processing of another performer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and vice versa. We could say that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four times the attention needed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what is intriguing about these two albums is that we see the emergence of a kind of accommodation with all the possibilities. The learning curve can be slow and difficult. But these musicians are rarely tentative or too careful their enthusiastic energy often bursts forth into highly expressive exchanges contrasting with beautifully controlled sustains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For both performer and listener, causality is decidedly \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfuzzy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Often we cannot really be sure exactly what caused a particular result technically. But we can hear the musical process that results. This is what we might call an emergent property \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the overall feel takes over and we go with the flow so as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not to intellectually focus on controlling specific dimensions but to allow the adaptive process to naturally follow whatever happens to the music.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [*]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has been likened to learning to ride a bicycle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c suddenly it \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjust happens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. We know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a learnt skill but we no longer have to try so hard. That said we can trip up \u00e2\u20ac\u201c indeed as soon as the bicycle is up and running the system is designed to push it into unexpected terrain. A fellow musician might play something that trips us up unintentionally! We can only slowly learn to respond meaningfully \u00e2\u20ac\u201c accidents become opportunities. You can hear over the course of these two albums this increasing sophistication of response to this potential instability. There is increasing sureness of touch, breath, shape and exchange. This has also been described as two (or more) musicians playing a single instrument \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but not in parallel. This situation is much more interactive! One pianist even remarked: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It felt like there was a 3rd musician present.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [*]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sound world is extremely rich throughout. Whether vocal, percussion, wind or string there is plenty of contrast of the sustained and the explosive. Above all a deep resonance permeates the sound \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but one that changes over time sometimes abruptly! In the discussions following the cross-adaptive playing sessions, one musician remarked: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is like giving away some part of what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve played, and it must be capable of being transformed out of your own control.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [*]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cross-adaptive processing in performance offers new and exciting challenges most especially for improvisation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c these two albums are just the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c3\u02dcyvind Brandtsegg &amp; Simon Emmerson, November 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(* see the Project blog\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crossadaptive.hf.ntnu.no\/\">crossadaptive.hf.ntnu.no<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Crossadaptive research project leader: \u00c3\u02dcyvind Brandtsegg<\/li><li>Album editor: \u00c3\u02dcyvind Brandtsegg<\/li><li>Mastering: Morten Stendahl at Redroom Studio<\/li><li>Artwork and design: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skurktur.com\/\">Skurktur<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/li><li>All researchers and performers in the <g class=\"gr_ gr_13 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"13\" data-gr-id=\"13\">crossadaptive<\/g> project: Simon Emmerson, Gary Bromham, Joshua Reiss, Victor Lazzarini, Miller Puckette, Marije Baalman, Solveig B\u00c3\u00b8e, Andreas Bergsland, Sigurd Saue, Carl Haakon Waadeland, Tone \u00c3\u2026se, Trond Engum, Bernt Isak W\u00c3\u00a6rstad, Gyrid Kaldestad, Bj\u00c3\u00b8rnar Habbestad, Mats Claesson, Maja S.K. Ratkje, Siv \u00c3\u02dcyunn Kjenstad, Ola Djupvik, Rory Walsh, Stian Westerhus, David Moss, Michael Duch, Ingrid Lode, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Heidi Skjerve, Kyle Motl, Steven Leffue, Jordan Sand, Kjell Nordeson, Iver Jordal, Ada Mathea Hoel, Kim Henry Ortveit, Ylva Brandtsegg. Students of the Institute of Music at NTNU, both in the Jazz department and the Music Technology department.<\/li><li>Support from the Norwegian Programme for Artistic Research, NTNU, University of California San Diego, Maynooth University, De Montfort University, Queen Mary University of London, Norwegian Academy of Music.<\/li><li>Recording Engineers and life savers: Thomas Henriksen, Rune Hoemsnes, Andrew Munsey, Tor Breivik, Terje Hallan, Gary Bromham.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica is very happy to announce the release of Trondheim EMP&#8217;s new double CD \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poke It With A Stick \/ Joining The Bots\u00e2\u20ac\u009d! 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