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Syneme is an investigation of international collaborative production and performance using "high-speed electronic art research networks" including KAREN.

Syneme TeleArts

Image:WaiIanWhalley.jpgNetwork throughput testing has confirmed that very high-quality audio can be transferred over KAREN and other research and education networks between WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts and a studio at the University of Calgary.

Among the work under way is the composition and performance of works across multiple sites in different countries. This has required significant work on software to carry audio over an Internet Protocol network. The aim now is to develop artistic solutions to the problems created by delay and other issues inherent in the use of high-capacity Research and Education Networks in shared interactive music performance over long distances.

Signals take a certain length of time to travel between The University of Waikato and sites in a number of countries, simply because the distances involved are great and the speed of light is finite.

A conventional videoconferencing unit is currently being used to provide the visual component of performance, but it is not clear that this will be the longer-term solution.

Assoc. Professor Ian Whalley of the Department of Music
Internet Protocol version 6 support in The University of Waikato's network has been extended to the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This is to allow collaboration within the Syneme project with a conservatory connected through the Chinese CERNET2 research and education network. This makes Syneme the university's first project outside Computer Science intentionally to make use of IPv6.