After presentations in Wrocław, Lviv, and Minsk, two final showings this year of Paweł Janicki’s EU_tracer performance with internet and acoustic instruments will take place in Paris and Brussels.

Paweł Janicki, EU_tracer :: Music Net Performance :: Friday, December 9, 2011 at 18:00 at Plateforme Gallery, Paris :: In collaboration with: Benjamin Duboc, contrabass :: Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 20:00 at MediaRuimte Gallery, Brussels ::
In collaboration with: Sigrid Keunen, violin

EU_tracer is a project developed by the WRO Art Center and commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the International Cultural Program of the Polish EU Presidency. It’s based on specially-designed software that scans EU institutions’ web services and analyzing the interrelations among messages and information translates them into visual and musical structures that depend on the connection quality, performance location and the improvisation style of the invited musician.

The main component od EU_tracer is the specially designed software that scans messages and information in the Internet not for their contents, but for the dynamics of the interrelations among them, which it translates it translates into graphic metastructures and musical forms.

The site of each performance is a significant aspect of the project: The particular geographic locations from which the program connects with the internet will affect the data flow and availability. As the work is displayed in successive geographically and politically varied European and Asian cities, it will create a sort of cyber-cartographic trail leading through the musician associated with the particular locate, using an acoustic instrument to improvise on the flow of internet data. This musician, in addition to being a collaborator whose inventiveness will shape the work, will also serve as a symbolic representative of his/her community in European/global digital communication space.