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CathedralCathedral IV - The Powerhouse / The BuildingDate Sat 3 August at 6.30 (demonstration and Marathon performance) With The Cathedral Band and guests William Barton, Sulagna Basu, Tenzin Choegyal, Simone de Haan, and Roger Dean Event: The building of Chartres Cathedral
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Cathedral I - Slow Poetics / The DanceDate Sat 27 July at 8.00pm With The Cathedral Band and guests William Barton, didgeridoo and Simone de Haan, trombone. Event: The founding of the Ghost Dance Religion
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Cathedral II - Line Songs / The PyramidDate Mon 29 July at 6.30pm (1hr demonstration), 8.00pm (performance),
9.00pm Live presentation of The Listening Room on ABC Classic
FM, with Andrew McLennan With The Cathedral Band and guest Tenzin Choegyal, Tibetan Musician. Event: The building of the Great Pyramid
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Cathedral III - Code One / The BombDate Thurs 1 August at 6.30pm (1hr demonstration), 8.00pm
(performance) With The Cathedral Band, guest Sulagna Basu, Hindustani singer and on the WorldWideWeb, alternative bands performing with us: Therefore [San Diego] – Michael Kaupfman, Wayne S.Feldman Event: The detonation of the First Atomic Bomb
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About CathedralCreated by composer William Duckworth and multimedia artist Nora Farrell, Cathedral is one of the first interactive, continuous works of music and art designed specifically for the WorldWideWeb. On-line since 1997, it features acoustic and computer music, live webcasts by its own band, and a variety of interactive musical, artistic, and text-based experiences, including new virtual instruments such as the PitchWeb. Conceptually and thematically, Cathedral derives from a re-envisioning of “five mystical moments in time”. These moments – the Building, the Bomb, the Pyramid, the Web, and the Dance – represent significant points of human creativity and collective actions. Specifically, these five moments are :
For us, they signify events that, though not yet fully understood, could have importance for the future. These moments, in turn, raise issues of religion and spirituality [The Building]; power and self-destruction [The Bomb]; lost civilizations [The Pyramid]; the future of individuals and societies [The Web]; also the natural and supernatural and, by extension, the indigenous people of the world [The Dance]. On the Cathedral website, these areas are designated as points for reflection and contemplation. In performance, various Cathedral Band concerts focus on individual moments, expanding, though not explaining, the references and associations. The Chronicler [A.J.Sabatini] can be helpful in this regard. As a work of art, Cathedral is unlike any previous concert model. On the Web and in concert, its form and content are free to evolve and merge on diverse planes, inviting a continuous participation from audiences to synthesize and recreate its mosaic of music, stories, images and creative experiences. In this sense, Cathedral is a new form of musical composition, within a new medium, designed to produce a new type of interactive musical experience. Our goals in undertaking Cathedral are not only to create a home for new and experimental music on the Web, as well as to blur the traditional distinctions among composers, performers and audiences, but also to present an imaginative, on-going artistic experience that builds community and re-awakens an interest in the process of making music. Thus, an important focus of Cathedral is continued research and development of virtual performance spaces, virtual musical instruments, and performer/listener interaction, as Cathedral attempts not only to create a web audience for new music, but also to give that audience an active, participatory role. During MiniMax, visitors to the Powerhouse and Cathedral websites from around the world can participate in the creation of LINE SONGS, a week-long interactive word-piece, by contributing on-line to an ever growing poem/sound piece that will be premiered in concert on Monday 29th July, and deconstructed by The Chronicler. Between 30th November and 2nd December 2001, Cathedral created the world’s largest festival of Internet music, with over 100 artists and composers taking part. Centered in New York City, the 48-hour webcast connected a global artistic community online, streaming 34 concerts from five continents. During the course of the weekend, Cathedral listeners experienced Tanzanian folksongs sung by Jonathan Hart Makwaia; the pipa playing of Wu Man; an audio tour of Krakow and Chicago; keyboard performances from Tokyo and Buenos Aires; Australian birdcalls and poetry from New Zealand, as well as collective contributions of listener-created PitchWeb bands playing day and night. Participating in the ABC’s Melbourne studios were Warren Burt and Brent Clough; in Sydney the austraLYSIS Electroband, and in Brisbane, Topology and Loops. Cathedral is the recipient of the 2001 ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award, given to those sites that have advanced the course of music within the online medium. William Duckworth & Nora Farrell The Cathedral BandWilliam Duckworth & Nora Farrell,
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Brisbane Powerhouse is an initiative of Brisbane City Council with principal sponsors
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