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The Kaon’CPT Collective: Building a musical culture of not-in-real-life performance through conducted live comprovisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2021

Nicolas Bouillot  and
Michał Seta
Nicolas Bouillot*
Affiliation:
Kaon’CPT Collective, Montreal Canada
Michał Seta*
Affiliation:
Kaon’CPT Collective, Montreal Canada
*
Emails: nicobou@kaoncpt.art; mis@kaoncpt.art
Emails: nicobou@kaoncpt.art; mis@kaoncpt.art
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Abstract

In this article we describe a Networked Music Collective for online live performance events. Four characteristics of live performance (bodies, space and time, musical culture and social process) are identified as the conceptual and technological basis of our approach. Our recent distributed comprovisation, Perripplayear, is used to illustrate these concepts and to describe the technology stack we employed. The Kaon’CPT collective uses diverse instrumentation including acoustic and electronic instruments, voice and digital musical instruments (DMIs). Its members span 12 time zones and their comprovisation is conducted via a custom distributed score.

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Organised Sound , Volume 26 , Issue 3: Collective and Networked Sound Practices , December 2021 , pp. 368 - 377
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