Coding Tuesdays

This will be a record of notes occasioned by Coding Tuesday, a research group/workshop that takes place in Sweetspot, the Pasig City recording studio of the composer Malek Lopez. I am Tad Ermitano, a Filipino media artist (with a focus on interactivity, video and sound). The workshop explores performance over a computer network, and was formed soon after we performed Music of The Lost Cities with the American composer Chris Brown and his wife, the muralist Johanna Poethig in The Living Room in February of this year. Music of The Lost Cities was an audiovisual performance that was the result of several weeks of exploratory emails and two intensive days of coding in Chris and Johanna's hotel room, an interaction I recorded here in another blog.

Malek and I decided to continue to explore Open Sound Protocol and the performance possibilities of sharing data between computers, an area Chris had explored, both as a member of the San Francisco networked music group The Hub and on his own. However, I should note here that we do not deliberately or systematically explore or recapitulate ideas or experiments by either Chris or the Hub. The workshop is meant to explore what the possibilities of networking has to offer in relation to what we are already doing and are interested in doing.

We've been recently joined by Tengal of SABAW media arts kitchen, which works out as Malek and I had more or less seen the Gangan Ensemble (a sound performance laboratory series I co-founded with Tengal) as being the place where we would show and implement whatever we came up with.