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SUMMARY:Multi-Location Space Opera and the Future of Music Performance
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DESCRIPTION:Loudon Stearns\, Berklee College of Music\nLoudon Stearns\, Be
 rklee College of Music\nBerklee College of Music Professor and Master of F
 ine Arts\, Loudon Stearns\, is the creator of "Every When at Once\," a Mul
 ti-location Space Opera\, performed on June 20\, 2015 as a collaboration b
 etween Berklee College Valencia\, Berklee College Boston\, Emerson College
  Boston\, and Emerson College LA. The opera features simultaneous network-
 connected music\, dance\, acrobatic\, and graphic performances in three lo
 cations (Valencia Spain\, Boston Massachusetts\, Los Angeles California)\,
  connecting technicians and artists from all the institutions\, and blazin
 g trails in contemporary opera performance.\nFollowing a trend of applying
  cutting-edge technology in theatric performances\, Loudon's production ap
 plied projection mapping\, internet streaming\, custom websites\, and cont
 emporary music techniques under the umbrella of "opera." Though individual
 ly these technologies have been explored in theatric performances\, the co
 mbination of these multiple systems is original\, and demonstrates how art
 ists can be the connecting fabric between technicians\, and in fact that t
 echnicians are artists themselves.\nThrough working on this project many a
 pplications of internet-streaming and long distance bi-directional communi
 cation were examined. It was found that the low-latency communication requ
 ired for real-time musical performances does not yet exist across the vast
  distances of this project. Though Berklee College and other institutions 
 which are part of Internet 2 are actively working on this topic\, the Ever
 y When At Once production was forced to find a solution\, pushing the arti
 sts and technicians to rethink how theatrical performances are run from th
 e ground-up.\nAn interesting lesson from Every When at Once is that artist
 s with a "resource first" mode of creation are naturally suited to make th
 e most of the diverse pool of the often underutilized human and technologi
 cal resources already present on campus. As collaborations on campus are o
 ften difficult as specialized knowledge grows and narrows within each fiel
 d\, Music and\, more in general\, Art offer a perfect way to bridge divide
 s by exposing artists to technology and by giving engineers and scientists
  aesthetic challenges with concrete technological implications. New resear
 ch questions\, innovation\, interpersonal connections\, and professional s
 atisfaction are natural results.Loudon Stearns is an associate professor a
 t Berklee College of Music\, a course author and instructor at Berklee Onl
 ine\, and an active media-artist. Within the Contemporary Writing and Prod
 uction department at Berklee College of Music he prepares students to work
  as independent composers and producers in a technology-laden music indust
 ry. Online\, he focuses on the latest electronic music styles and music-te
 chnology innovations\, showing students how to analyze contemporary styles
  and use the latest music technology in their own works. An innovator in b
 oth education and art\, Loudon authored a Massive Open Online Class\, "Int
 roduction to Music Production\," that has provided high-quality free educt
 ion to hundreds of thousands of students\, received an award from the Univ
 ersity Professional and Continuing Education Association for "Excellence i
 n Teaching" and received the "Excellence in Media Art" award from the Emer
 son College Visual and Media Art department. Holding a Bachelors of Music 
 in Contemporary Writing and Production and Bass Performance from Berklee C
 ollege of Music\, and a Master of Fine Arts in Media Art from Emerson Coll
 ege\, Loudon pulls from a broad range of skills in the creation of his own
  multi-media performances that include live music\, projection-mapping\, d
 ance\, visual art and interactivity. Of particular interest is using the e
 ntire world as a performance space by using internet streaming to coordina
 te numerous performers and audiences on vastly different parts of the glob
 e. The technical and aesthetic challenges of this type of performance are 
 new and exciting and require the sort of broad skill-set that Loudon has d
 eveloped through his extensive institutional and self education in music\,
  sound\, performance\, motion graphics\, photography\, programming\, and c
 onstruction.Sandwiches will be served. Please RSVP here\, including your n
 ame and affiliation.
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