Gridjam is an experimental project, a collaboration of music, visual art, science and

technology, and foremost, a world-class work of art and performance that stretches the ideas of what performance is and can be in a truly global society. Gridjam assembles a visual artist, a composer, musicians, scientists and technologists to produce a real-time, globally distributed performance in virtual space that employs the high performance communications network that is rapidly bringing the globe to a point and virtual venue. Gridjam will also demonstrate the power of world-class art–in a virtual world--reach audiences across the expanse of space and time from multiple venues.

Visualization: Jack Ox and Dave Britton

Music: Alvin Curran, composer and musician, Del Sol Quartet and Anthony Braxton playing.

Organizations and Venues University of New Mexico’s College of Fine Arts, with resources of the Art Research Technology and Science Laboratory and the Center for High Performance Computing.The California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology (Calit2) at UC San Diego,University of Alberta, University of Amsterdam in collaboration with De Waag Society, The Laboratory for Creative Arts and Technologies (L-CAT) at Louisiana State University

The Desert Organ stop inside the Virtual Color Organ™ . This is the VR space where Gridjam will be visualized- a metaphor for an orchestra seen through different landscape formations.

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Image map created in MAXmsp giving dynamic and pitch information for modeling the sound in 3D. The green line reflects dynamic and the red line is the pitch.

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