"ViscousCity: thick sound for hot people"

Web jam, MP3 and Real Audio.

Photos : Sandra Lynn Bélanger

As part of the Les États nocturnes event organised by Vidéographe, Studio XX invited the public to attend an all-woman Web jam at the Théâtre de Verdure in Parc Lafontaine.

Studio XX, the media arts and multimedia resource centre for women in Montreal, invited the dauntless to participate in an experimental Web jam with female local artists and artists from Austria and Latvia.The Web jam is a sound piece based on improvisation and retroactivity that transmits itself through high bandwidth streaming: the "stream" interlinks all the participating artists to one server.

At the heart of Parc Lafontaine, the Web jam showcased montreal
sound artists Anna Friz and I8U assisted by Annabelle Chvostek,
who improvised and exchanged sounds with musicians from summer-camp@ozone (Riga, Latvia), sonomat beta (Vienna, Austria) as well as Reni Hofmueller (Graz, Austria)

Anna Friz is a sound artist, performer,
radio programmer, producer and curator. She has created works
for CBC Radio 1, Denmark's Radio 2 and ORF Kunstradio, Austria. During the three years that she worked as programming
coordinator at CiTR Radio (Vancouver), she acted as curator for the 24 Hours of Radio Art project.

I8U has been rapidly gaining ground, over the past year, as one of experimental electronic music's most intense live performers. Her set, based upon experimentation with low frequency content and resonance from both digital and analogue synthesizers, involves the audience in a physical environment of sound and light, and promotes true communication between the artist and listener...

Links :
www.kunstradio.at
ozone.re-lab.net
www.I8U.com
www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/frizbio.html