WIKI-PIANO.NET
Performances
Description:
*Wiki-Piano.Net* is a piece for piano and the internet community. It is composed by everyone. At every time. The composition is notated as an editable Wiki internet page and is subject to constant change and fluctuation. When visiting the website *wiki-piano.net* everybody can see the current state of the piece and make alterations. The website allows the visitor to place media content, comments, audio, and pictures in the piece but also provides tools for traditional score editing.
When a performer decides to play the piece in a concert, the current version of the website score at that date will be performed. Whatever is found on the website at that moment will be the score for the player, who follows all instructions of the page from top to bottom. Hence no performance will ever be the same. Through the editing process of the community, new versions of the piece will constantly evolve.
The piece offers the audience to actively engage in the process of the composition and to shape the result as they like. The work questions traditional roles of authorhip and copyright and provides a democratic tool. The role of the composer in this case is reduced to providing a framework. The initial state of the piece was blank, so that the piece is not a remix of an original work, but rather a software designed to enable collaborative practices. Through that it reflects processes of collective creativity and community interaction. The goal was not to create a perfect final piece but rather to mirror processes of online behaviour and transport these concepts to a classical concert situation. As a result, the different versions of the piece show elements of typical online / meme humor just as much as random trolling and insightful composition. Also the evolution of ideas, passages, and material over the time proved interesting. The constant mutating and alteration of existing material can be accessed in the archive function of the piece *[wiki-piano.net/archive](https://wiki-piano.net/archive "wiki-piano.net/archive")*.
The technical realisation of the performance is realized exclusively in the browser. The projection of all visual material and playback of sounds in the concert is handled from the page *[wiki-piano.net/audience](https://wiki-piano.net/audience "wiki-piano.net/audience")*.
In this way, no score, materials, or programs need to be bought and the performance material is immediately available for everybody with an internet connection and a browser. The framework is freely available and does not involve monetarization or the decision of the composer, publishing company, or any other third party.
When a performer decides to play the piece in a concert, the current version of the website score at that date will be performed. Whatever is found on the website at that moment will be the score for the player, who follows all instructions of the page from top to bottom. Hence no performance will ever be the same. Through the editing process of the community, new versions of the piece will constantly evolve.
The piece offers the audience to actively engage in the process of the composition and to shape the result as they like. The work questions traditional roles of authorhip and copyright and provides a democratic tool. The role of the composer in this case is reduced to providing a framework. The initial state of the piece was blank, so that the piece is not a remix of an original work, but rather a software designed to enable collaborative practices. Through that it reflects processes of collective creativity and community interaction. The goal was not to create a perfect final piece but rather to mirror processes of online behaviour and transport these concepts to a classical concert situation. As a result, the different versions of the piece show elements of typical online / meme humor just as much as random trolling and insightful composition. Also the evolution of ideas, passages, and material over the time proved interesting. The constant mutating and alteration of existing material can be accessed in the archive function of the piece *[wiki-piano.net/archive](https://wiki-piano.net/archive "wiki-piano.net/archive")*.
The technical realisation of the performance is realized exclusively in the browser. The projection of all visual material and playback of sounds in the concert is handled from the page *[wiki-piano.net/audience](https://wiki-piano.net/audience "wiki-piano.net/audience")*.
In this way, no score, materials, or programs need to be bought and the performance material is immediately available for everybody with an internet connection and a browser. The framework is freely available and does not involve monetarization or the decision of the composer, publishing company, or any other third party.
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