Ken Fields (ken)'s status on Friday, 09-Jan-2015 00:50:46 JST

Like technology, other aspects of life have been altered rapidly such as population growth and decline, as well as climate change. A Matter of Life is a network-based music composition intended to be performed between two locations and involve both instrumental performers and live electronics. The score is communicated between the two client locations over the network via a server host. This composition highlights the trajectory of the population-extinction-climate relationship through symbolism, sound, and interconnection. Everything in a digital network is interconnected; this principle is also reflected in ecological network. The tree of life was incorporated as a compositional element and metaphor to highlight this idea. As the human footprint grows, the effect on the environment increases exponentially. The network of life on earth is extremely sensitive and reliant on all components being healthy, not unlike the networking of music between distant locations such as Calgary and Beijing. With Bruce Gremo and Meng Qi.