A colleague of mine lent me the August/October 2009 issue of Contemporary Music Review, (Volume 28 Issue 4 & 5 2009) as its theme is Network Performance. I’ve not managed to wade through it yet as almost everything in there looks interesting but a few things have caught my eye in particular; the article by by Jérôme Joy and Peter Sinclair, Networked Music & Soundart Timeline (NMSAT): A Panoramic View of Practices and Techniques Related to Sound Transmission and Distance Listening and the article by Chris Chafe, Tapping into the Internet as an Acoustical/Musical Medium, the initial stages of which he presented at Subtle Technologies: Networks last year.

Below is the full list of articles. The journal is impossible to get hold of in print by the way (and the pdf format is more expensive than the annual subscription) unless your subscribed to it, know somebody who is or happen to have a local library that stocks it so I’ve included links to a few online pdf versions from alternative sources where possible.

• Networked Music & Soundart Timeline (NMSAT): A Panoramic View of Practices and Techniques Related to Sound Transmission and Distance Listening
  by Jérôme Joy; Peter Sinclair
• Network Musics: Play, Engagement and the Democratization of Performance
  by David Kim-Boyle
• Dramaturgy as a Model for Geographically Displaced Collaborations: Views from Within and Views from Without
  by Franziska Schroeder
• Dramaturgy in the Network
  by Pedro Rebelo
• On the Evolution of Music Notation in Network Music Environments
  by Georg Hajdu; Nick Didkovsky
• Not Being There
  by Miller Puckette
• Tapping into the Internet as an Acoustical/Musical Medium
  by Chris Chafe
• The Telematic Music System: Affordances for a New Instrument to Shape the Music of Tomorrow
  by Jonas Braasch
• Networked Music: Low and High Tech
  by Pauline Oliveros
• Here Right Now
  by Monique Buzzarté
• Long Distance Sitting #2: Untitled Sit for Multiple Virtual Bodies and You
  by Michelle Nagai
• Now …and then? commissioned for Deep Listening Institute’s “Telemergence”– New works for the telematic medium
  by Kristin Norderval
• Networked Music & Soundart Timeline (NMSAT) Excerpts of Part One: Ancient and Modern History, Anticipatory Literature, and Technical Developments References
  by Jérôme Joy