On 9.25.11, Master musicians in both New York City and South Korea performed togethether via telepresence, sharing compositions and fusing disparate traditions. The performance was followed by a Q & A, linking artists and audiences in both locations.

Musicians:

NEW YORK / Steve Gorn (Bansuri), Yukio Tsuji (Guitar, Percussion), Kang Eun-il (Haegum)

KOREA / Ralph Samuelson (Shakuhachi), Kim Young-dong (DaeGeum)

Dancer:

KOREA / Park Sook-ja

A short piece on the reading of Catherine Filloux's new play Dog and Wolf, directed by Jean Randich. Culturehub used Ustream to link audiences in Bosnia and NYC and helped facilitate dialogue between the two remote sites. The reading was presented by Watson Arts in association with Culturehub and the Center for Justice and Reconciliation in Sarajevo

Mixed Movement / The Digital Duets used telepresence to link dancers over distance. The dancers perform duets through the technology for audiences in Manchester and New York. DawN Crandell, the founder of Mixed Movement, hosted the event which was accomponied by live music improvised in both countries. The event was part of the Black Sound Series, a festival at Contact-Theatre, celebrating Africa’s rich musical heritage.

New York-based visualist Joshue Ott creates cinematic visual improvisations, performed live and projected in large scale. Working from hand-drawn forms manipulated in real-time with superDraw, a software instrument of his own design, Ott composes evolving images that reside somewhere between minimalism, psychedelia, and Cagean chance, delivered with an inescapably human touch. Supple yet digital, ephemeral but instantly memorable, Ott renders sound into vision, yielding an immersive multi-sensory experience that is at once immediate and synergistic, a unique visual narrative born in the moment.

Rabbi Darkside and Farbeon instructed two classes (Spring 2010) on hip-hop history, beat boxing and DJ’ing. The Culturehub telepresence system was used to facilitate the exchanges over distance. In the third session Rabbi and Farbeon rehearsed with the SeoulArts' fusion music students and performed in a final showing before a live audience in Korea.

An evening of Audio/Visual Meditations. Neel Murgai (sitar) and Ed Feldman (tabla) began the show with a classical Hindustani set. Ezekiel Honig joined in the second set with electronic music and Neel shifted to daf (a Persian percussion instrument) and overtone singing. Josh Ott created visuals for both sets using his program superDraw.

Using Polycom's HDX9004 series codec machines we connected Seoul Institute of the Arts, ATEC Center with Culturehub studio in NYC. Joshue Ott (New York, USA) tested his superDraw program through the telepresence system with promising results. Music was provided by Ho Jung Kang (ANSAN, Korea).  The Test was conducted at 11:30AM (Ansan, Korea time) & 9:30pm (NYC, USA time), Dec. 23, 2009.

This video contains excerpts from a student driven project that incorporated telepresence technology as a platform for multi-media/multi-location performance. The work was entitled CALL WAITING. Paul McIsaac of Playback Theatre NYC worked with a team of professors at the Seoul Institute of the Arts to help the students realize their vision. The concept for the piece arose when students decided to modernize a traditional Korean Shaman ritual as a means to process and leave behind what had been a challenging year for Korea as well as the rest of the world. A story line developed that centered around the relationship between two main characters. Students auditioned and selected an NYC based actor to portray the male lead and Culturehub studio was transformed into a New York apartment. The story is about love and loss and culminates with a climactic shaman dance and a series of projected flames.