Demonstration of a Networked Music Performance Experience with MEVO

TL;DR

This paper presents a networked music performance system tested in a real concert with musicians in Italy and Poland, demonstrating its stability and potential for transparent remote musical collaboration.

Contribution

It introduces a new networked music performance system and demonstrates its practical use in a live distributed concert setting.

Findings

System was stable enough for live performance

Remote audience perceived the performance as transparent

First demonstration of this system in a real concert environment

Abstract

In this paper we present a Networked Music Performance system currently under development at Politecnico di Torino. We demonstrate its use in a distributed concert held in June 2023, which featured three musicians in Turin (Italy) and three musicians in Wroc{\l}aw (Poland). Although in its early stages, the system proved to be already stable enough to appear transparent to the remote audience.