Telepæsants is a group that sprang out of Kaon’CPT collective of remotely improvising artists spanning 15 timezones. Becoming Telepæsants is our research-creation project where we explore the use of Digital Musical Instruments, and networked protocols, to interact with virtual and physical objects. In our work, the distance is the essence, and we need to weave it into all aspects of our exploration together. We have been exploring hybrid performances using both potential virtual spaces and physical locations, and gesture, in all its manifestations (physical, musical, visual, digital).Telepæsants has presented and performed their works extensively and are continuously developing a strong immersive aesthetic with video, multi-channel audio, improvisation, lighting and hybridity.
Stay tuned for future performances!
Michał Seta is a sound artist, improviser, code plumber and digital arts researcher. Transdisciplinarity is his daily bread and he conjures it in his personal and professional life. He co-founded the band No One Receiving as well as UniSecs, a spoken word and electroacoustic music duo. As a coder, he has contributed to his own work and that of other artists. He has served as a reasearch assistant to Sandeep Bhagwati, where he developed several digital scores. He has ventured into interactive art installations with [IR]rational, a commission from the Montreal Science Centre, and Re-Collect, an award-winning project that has been presented in North America, Europe and the Middle East. His short film [*]nScape was selected for the first Drone Cinema Film Festival and was followed by several musical releases in rapid succession, mainly on Silent Records. Recently, he has been interested in using video games as a vehicle for musical expression.
Dirk Johan Stromberg is an Improvisor, Audio Engineer, Maker, and Production Designer. His body of work explores the dynamic interaction between performers and technology in performance practice. His collaborations have drawn him to work with various musicians, artists, dancers, writers and composers in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Designing both hardware and software has led to the development of various interfaces, synthesis techniques, installation works, electro-acoustic instruments, and interdisciplinary works. Currently, he is focused on creating instruments as part of a new performance practice. His instruments aim to reveal the physical manifestation of his musical process. He focuses on tactile-agile instruments with a high degree of versatility that enables him to work with and respond to different artists in many styles.
Dirk promotes the approach of the community as an integral process of making art and has consistently facilitated vehicles for collaboration and art-making through festivals. He co-founded and co-directed the Duong Dai festival in Vietnam (2007-2018) and curated several different concert series focusing on improvised and spontaneous music. Currently, he is curating the Hidden Session series in Singapore.
He has presented his work as a composer, performer, improviser, and maker in conferences and festivals ranging from NIME to Moers. Dirk is currently a Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.
16 May 2022 - Music Maker Festival, California USA
7 November 2021 - NowNet Arts Conference
27 June 2021 - Boreal Electro-Acoustics Music Society (BEAMS)
9 April 2021 - Music at Noon, University of Lethbridge, Canada
6 February 2021 - Symposium IX @ La Sat, Montreal Canada
20 November 2020 - Audio Arts Festival, Kraków, Poland
17 July 2020 - Network Music Festival, Birmingham UK
4 November 2022 - Nownet Arts Conference (Oscuterium)
7 July 2022 - Substrate series at Society for Art and Technology [SAT], Montreal
31 May 2022 - Web-XR(Satellite) Residency, Premiere, Montreal, Canada (Oscuterium)
6 November 2021- NowNet Arts Conference (Alt F, In Front of the Body)
14 August 2021 - Improvisation Festival, Canada (Alt F, In Front of the Body)
16 June 2021 - NIME, Shanghai, China (Alt F, In Front of the Body)
8 November 2024 - NowNet Arts Conference
22 October 2024 - Australian Computer Music Conference, Sydney, Australia
30 September 2024 - IEEE, Internet of Sounds 2 Conference
29 September 2024 - SPAM Festival
31 August 2024 - NowNet Arts Conference
2 June 2024 - AJIRN Conference, Melbourne, Australia
19 November 2022 - Avant-Garden, Singapore
## Emergent as Telepæsants
Full Performance: https://www.youtube.com/live/xzZ5rZ_9Znk?si=GAztbyTJBe0ONKvs
Trailer: https://youtu.be/xoEx1FXIru0?si=XNrn35dKPM9y2cby Excerpt: https://youtu.be/6SCf4D4UopE
Behind the Scenes: https://youtu.be/yT8Vv2W-AgE?si=BA6tMo_k_qsKnk7p