The Lindeman Hall
- Sarah-Jane Summers (strings)
- Torben Snekkestad (woodwinds and electronics)
- Ivar Grydeland (steel guitar)
Kristiansand
- Jan Bang (live-sampling and electronics)
Trondheim
- Tone Åse (voice and electronics)
Graz
- Michael Duch (double bass)
About
The Love Your Latency project connects performers across geographical distances. Musicians on stage in the Lindeman Hall perform alongside musicians located in Trondheim, Kristiansand, and in Graz, Austria. The musicians are brought together in the same online virtual studio and presents the musical outcome in hybrid onsite/online parallel performances. Parallel to the concert at Lindemansalen, the same, or rather a variant of the same concert, is held at Kraftverk in Kristiansand.
Both the audiences and the performers are challenged by juggling multiple here-and-nows, prompting us to ponder questions about togetherness and the perception of time in different temporalities and spaces.
Telematic performance, a long-standing tradition of playing music together over the internet, once confined to universities, evolved into a key musical and social activity for many musicians during the COVID lockdowns. Today's technology offers very low latency, comparable to the latency on a large stage. Rather than reducing latency to a minimum, the artistic research project Love Your Latency, takes a perspective by exploring the artistic potential of more inclusive, consumer-friendly technology. Inspired by glitches, high latency, and drop-outs experienced during the pandemic, Love Your Latency seeks to create a more fictional performance space, as described by Lewis (2021): "...an encounter which is not alienating due to its failed attempt to mimic reality but empowering as a collective confrontation with elastic time."
The project is a collaboration between CreaTeME (Centre for Excellence in Education), the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Kilden Theater and Concert Hall in Kristiansand.