Quarantine Sessions #4 - A Distributed Electroacoustic Network Improvisation

The Coronavirus Crisis has changed our lives, and we are in the midst of a long period without concerts as we knew them. In addition to the problem of large audiences, the regulations also make it 'virtually' impossible for musicians to get together, to rehearse or perform. However, many technologies and solutions are already available, helping us to find new ways of collaborating and transporting our work to audiences.

In the past few weeks we have been programming, testing and rehearsing in an online environment between California, which is facing a 'shelter-in-place' situation, Berlin (DE) with strict 'Kontakt- und Ausgangsbeschränkungen', and Ghent (BE). We are now presenting our fourth concert, connecting six musicians and a painter from these locations, and broadcasting the result as a live stream with audio and video feeds from each site.

Special guest:
Pamela Davis Kivelson, live painting (Menlo Park, CA)

Performers:
Constantin Basica (Palo Alto, CA)
Chris Chafe (Woodside, CA)
Henrik von Coler (Berlin, DE)
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (San Carlos, CA)
Juan Parra (Ghent, BE)
Klaus Scheuermann (Berlin, DE)

The 'Quarantine Sessions' are realized using free and open source technologies, which can be easily adopted by anyone:
JackTrip (audio) ccrma.stanford.edu/software/jacktrip
Jitsi (video) jitsi.org/jitsi-meet
OBS (streaming) obsproject.com

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