Sharing code and data has always been a part of FaMLE's performance practice, a practice we have continued in our current online format. This concert celebrates the experience of performing in a global space - in which FaMLE members are physically distributed around the world yet each have a unique window into a shared space for code and musical expression.
The compositions on this concert explore various concepts of collaboration, constraint, and agency. Many of them will be performed in Gibber.cc, a web-based environment integrating several different approaches to live coding sound and visuals. We will also feature several special performances, including pieces created using new software and hardware systems designed by FaMLE members Qiantan Hong and Josh Verdejo as well as an excerpt of FaMLE's collaboration with the Jamaica Plain Sax Quartet.
About FaMLE:
FaMLE, the MIT Laptop Ensemble, is a living laboratory which investigates how contemporary musical practices are shaped by emerging technologies. In our laptop-based performances we incorporate networked systems, digital musical instruments, and custom software to allow us to explore new forms of musical collaboration. Musically omnivorous, FaMLE can sound like electronic Debussy, Romulan synthpop, a luminous treefrog city, or any sound you can imagine. Open to all members of the MIT community, FaMLE offers a practice-based vision of the future of digital musicianship.
FaMLE Spring 2021:
Qiantan Hong
Josh Verdejo
Jerry Zhang
Grace Smith
Andreas Haupt
directed by Ian Hattwick
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