Construction/Deconstruction - A concert demonstration using Raspberry Pi’s

Gloria Damijan Jane Wang and Ximena Alcarcon are offering a telematic live performance
where they demonstrate how they use Raspberry Pi Computers to make music together and
overcome the physical distance between their hometowns Vienna (Austria), Boston (USA)
and Bath (UK) via ‘JackTrip’ audio connection.

Here is a short description of our technical setup:

Gloria Damijan: RPi 4B - 2GB, 16 GB SD - Card (part of package), RPi power supply,
PepperTech Digital Raspberry Pi Official Keyboard and Mouse Value Pack, Blaupunkt TV
screen, Motu M2 Interface with 1 Roede MP M5, 1 Schertler Basik Set and Headphones AKG
K-240 Studio plugged into Input 1.

Jane Wang: RPi 4B 2GB, 32GB card, RPi power supply, PepperTech Digital Raspberry Pi
Official Keyboard and Mouse Value Pack, EVICIV 7" Portable USB Monitor Raspberry Pi,
Tascam USB 4x4 mixer with Shure SM58 plugged into Input 1.

Ximena Alarcon: RPi 4B - 2 GB, 32GB SD - Card, RPi power supply, Microsoft keyboard, Cirque
Glidepoint mouse, Viewsonic monitor, Yamaha AG 06 Mixing Console with Shure SM58
plugged into Input 1.

We will start our demonstration performance with a short introduction of our technical set
up, also mentioning the various advantages of using a Raspberry Pi:

• portability
• low cost
• no issues with internet security and firewalls
• access to a huge amount of open-source programs

After this short presentation we will start the musical part of our concert demonstration.
For this part we will focus completely on the sense of hearing and therefore perform
without video. If the conference allows for it, we would be happy to do a Question & Answer
session with the audience.

The reason for focusing on the audio signal is that we want to enable the audience and of
course ourselves to have an intensified listening experience. In this way we also underline
the quality of the audio signal and the usability of the Raspberry Pi for achieving a satisfying
musical communication throughout physical distance.

We’ll present an experimental improvisation with elements of performance art and ‘Fluxus’.
We will construct and deconstruct the complex relationship between technology, musical
interaction, and overall communication to the (invisible) audience through sound, structure
and deconstruction of words and command lines that appear in front of our inner eye that
are connected to our hard – and software.
This brings up the following questions, we keep on focusing during the process of
rehearsing:
• To what extent can technology replace physical presence?
• How does our musical interaction develop when we just rely only on transmitting
and receiving sound?
• Can and should we push the high dependency on technology out of our minds?
The following link leads to a bundle of graphics that visualize different options within the
concept of ‘construction /deconstruction’: visualization of interconnections.docx
Thoughts on interconnections between human beings, experimental improvised music,
and technology

1) Basic interconnection

2) Circular interconnection

3a) – c) Complex constructions of interconnections

3b)

3c)

4) Early state of deconstructed interconnections

5) Deconstructed interconnections