Dr. Roger Mills is a musician, educator and writer whose practice and research focuses on online music making, improvisation, radio, sound and music in composition, and installation. His strong interest in intercultural collaboration emerged from his work with cross-cultural singers and performers during the halcyon days of Trip Hop in Bristol, UK. His experimentations with early Internet file mixing platforms led to large-scale audio-visual telematic performances, which were experienced by online and collocated audiences in the UK, Europe and the US.
Aiming to explore new approaches to intercultural online jamming, Roger founded the internationally acclaimed Ethernet Orchestra. The ensemble have performed nationally and internationally since 2009, and inspired his research, and recent book about intercultural tele-improvisation.
Ethernet Orchestra released their highly praised second album, Oceans between Sound, in 2020, which received high volume international radio play was described as “Opening doors on the far East to the avant-garde cellars of New York (Krautnick Magazine), and a ‘testament to what can be achieved through real-time internet performance’ (Sound is the Message Radio Show, Barcelona).
http://eartrumpet.org
https://ethernetorchestra.net
https://telesound.net
