This page contains a variety of audio-visual work by the Ethernet Orchestra, including live located performances, experimental case studies, and live cinema events for radio and online festival performances.

Ethernet Orchestra duo performance at the People’s Republic of Australasia, Sydney, October 2015.
Featuring Bukhchuluun Ganburged (AU) morin khuur, throat singing, Chris Vine (BR) guitar and electronics.

 

Full ensemble performance at the People’s Republic of Australasia, Sydney, October 2015.
Featuring Chris Vine (Londrina, Brazil), Yavuz Uydu, Bukhchuluun Ganburged, Roger Mills and  Shaun Prenmath (Sydney, Australia).

 

Intercultural tele-improvisation study III (excerpt)

One of a number of case study performances investigating the approaches and strategies that performers develop to interact in intercultural online jamming. These studies are documented in the book,  Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session by Ethernet Orchestra founder, Roger Mills.

Ethernet Orchestra live cinema collaborations

Distant Presences
Live cinema performance on FBi Radio, Sydney 94.5 FM Sydney and A/V platform Visitors Studio.

Distant Presences was a telematic audio-visual radio performance featuring networked VJ’s in Sydney, London, and Germany mixing live cinema collages to the ensemble’s improvisations in the A/V platform VisitorsStudio. It was originally broadcast on FBI Radio, Sydney, in June 2011 as a meditation on the multifarious nature of location and being.

Ocean Between Sound – Live at Upstage Festival of Cyberformance 2012

Oceans Between Sound was a series of two audiovisual networked music performances for the UpStage Festival of Cyberformance, 2012. It featured networked visual artists Graziano Milano and Michael Szpakowski (UK) mixing live cinema visual collages to the ensemble’s improvisations. Exploring areas of intercultural tele-improvisation between world cultures, the narrative of the work considers the ebb and flow of network data as a metaphor for the world oceans separating the members of the ensemble and their geographically dispersed lives. The performances also provided source material for the album of the same name, released in 2020.

This video is the technical rehearsal and featured a stripped down ensemble performing with Graziano Milano, who was mixing live cinema collages from London.

This video is of the first of the two UpStage performances. Performerslisted below.

Networked VJ
Michael Szpakowski – London

Ethernet Orchestra
Sydney
Bukhu Ganburged – morin khuur (horse fiddle and throat singing) roger Mills (Processed trumpet) and Aref Toloei (tar)

Germany
Martin Slawig (percussion and electronics)

United Kingdom
Hervé Perez (soprano sax, percussion and electronics)

Oceans Between Sound II

Networked VJ
Graziano Milano – London

Ethernet Orchestra
Sydney
Bukhu Ganburged – morin khuur (horse fiddle and throat singing)
Roger Mills (processed trumpet)
Aref Toloei (tar)

Germany
Martin Slawig (percussion and electronics)
Elke Utermöhlen (voice & electronics)

Brasil
Chris Vine (Brasil)

United Kingdom
Hervé Perez (soprano sax, percussion, and electronics)