Absurdity: A distributed performance using LiveSHOUT with members from the Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO). ----- Documentation: https://www.federicovisi.com/physically-distant-2-more-online-talks-on-telematic-performance ----- FLO Page: https://femalelaptoporchestra.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/flo-at -----

Franziska Schroeder; Matilde Meireles

Absurdity: A distributed performance using LiveSHOUT with members from the Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO). ----- Documentation: https://www.federicovisi.com/physically-distant-2-more-online-talks-on-telematic-performance ----- FLO Page: https://femalelaptoporchestra.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/flo-at -----

Franziska Schroeder^* (Producer), Matilde Meireles (Performer)

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School of Arts, English and Languages

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“Absurdity” is based around a short excerpt from of one of Portugal’s most mysterious, elusive and peculiar writers, Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa’s multiplicities and his ways of thinking about life, engendering ideas that can feel manic-depressive, filled with buckets of self-pity, while being able to scratch the innermost parts of one’s soul, lie at the heart of this distributed performance.

Members of FLO streamed sounds from several distributed places, including Crete, Italy, Brazil and the UK, while Franziska and Matilde delivered fragmented excerpts (in both English and Portuguese) alongside the LiveSHOUT streams. The idea of distributed creativity, where we combine sounds from several sites, inspired by Pessoa’s plurality of thoughts and philosophies; his multiplicities, his fictionality and his self alienation, led to a performance that aimed to be absurd, dispersed, fragmented and multiple.

“I've always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be”. (Pessoa In: Ciuraru, 2012).

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Publication status	Published - 28 Jul 2020

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Queen's University Belfast: Arts, English and Languages (AEL) Online Showcase 2021
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09 Mar 2021 → 12 Mar 2021
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03 Dec 2020
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19 Nov 2020
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2 Article
1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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Schroeder, F., 13 Jul 2021, Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts. Bertinetto, A. & Ruta, M. (eds.). Routledge, p. 1-20: In Section 2, Aesthetics and Ethics of Improvisation 20 p.
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Schroeder, F. (Performer) & Kuzmenko, L. (Performer), 28 Feb 2021
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Schroeder, Franziska (Producer) ; Meireles, Matilde (Performer). / Absurdity : A distributed performance using LiveSHOUT with members from the Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO). ----- Documentation: https://www.federicovisi.com/physically-distant-2-more-online-talks-on-telematic-performance ----- FLO Page: https://femalelaptoporchestra.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/flo-at -----. [Composition].

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Queen's University Belfast: Arts, English and Languages (AEL) Online Showcase 2021

Distributed Listening - Network Music and Tools which make us think

Re-thinking performance practice through distributed listening and immersive environments - Keynote Talk, Brazil

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Distributed Participatory Design: The challenges of designing with physically disabled musicians during a global pandemic

Manyness in Music Improvisation - Fernando Pessoa’s multiplicities, his differing selves examined in the practice of music improvisation

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Distributed Listening - Network Music and Tools which make us think  