Near-Real-Time features three of Sam Wells’s collaborative, free improvisation projects that arose during the the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic struck, Wells, like with many other musicians, began to embrace telematic and networked performance practices to address the sudden absence of in-person musical interactions. The ability to connect, collaborate, and perform with other musicians in near real-time throughout the past year has been a sustaining artistic element of Wells’s pandemic reality. These performances represent a range of approaches to remote musical interaction, electronic audio processing, and free improvisation, embracing the fundamental latencies of networked music-making. Sam will be joined by Christopher Biggs, Scott L. Miller, Sarah Belle Reid, and Adam Vidiksis.

Program:

202102252300 (2021) [21 minutes]

Sarah Belle Reid, trumpet & electronics

Sam Wells, trumpet & electronics

+ ± (2021) [16 minutes]

Christopher Biggs, electronics

Sam Wells, trumpet & electronics

25/02/21, part one (2021) [26 minutes]

Scott L. Miller, Kyma Sound Design Environment

Adam Vidiksis, drum set

Sam Wells, trumpet

Sam Wells [ https://www.samwellsmusic.com ]

Scott L. Miller [ https://www.scottlmiller.net ]

Christopher Biggs [ https://christopherbiggsmusic.com ]

Sarah Belle Reid [ https://www.sarahbellereid.com ]

Adam Vidiksis [ https://vidiksis.com ]

Sam Wells, audio mixing/mastering and video processing/editting