New Flesh Network is a musical performance for choir – controlled by The Musical Turk :: by Olle Cornéer and Martin Lübcke ::

New Flesh Network from Olle Corneer on Vimeo.

Every person in the choir wears a pair of ear muffs cancelling out all sounds, making them hear only the instructions that they individually receive in their in-ear headphones. The music is improvised and reflects the network it is a part of. Every person executes a simple task, but the result is complex and organic.

Man and machine working together as an effective organism. And just like other contemporary networks – be it terror networks or Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – New Flesh Network makes it possible to create results that couldn’t be created without its nodes and connections. In this case: music.

With New Flesh Network a traditional choir can perform phasing arpeggios, micro tuned clusters and advanced machine-like rhythm patterns. All in real-time and completely improvised by the artists that are in control.

The first performance was together with Uppsala Kammarkör: http://vimeo.com/33388571

Read more here: http://corneerlubcke.com/works/new-flesh-network/