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Categories: Audio Art
Relevant passages:
Golo Föllmer «Audio Art»
Check as well:
John Cage
La Monte Young Max Neuhaus John Cage «Fontana Mix» La Monte Young «Dream House» Max Neuhaus «Drive In Music»
Matthew Rogalsky
«FontanaNet»
Fontana Net (2002) is an incarnation of John Cage’s Fontana Mix [Link] which is designed as an open, modular score. Rogalsky transferred Cage’s principle of score creation to a computer network. With Fontana Net, any number of players controls a central computer functioning as a sample player. The players draw points and lines on a graphic tablet based on specified instructions that are created using the method indicated by Cage. Aural outcomes are initiated and then modified in six different ways (volume, playback speed, filtering, spatial movement, etc.).
One of the most engaging elements about Fontana Net is that the players do not always know which parameters or which sounds they are modifying. It is entirely possible that two players simultaneously process the same sound parameter.
During the premiere performance at the 'MaerzMusik' festival in Berlin in 2002, Rogalsky, Anne Wellmer and Jem Finer played together in the same space. Another performance took place in May of the same year, in which Anne Wellmer played via Internet.
Source: Golo Föllmer: Net Music, CD-ROM for Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 165/5, Sept./Oct. 2004
