LOLA - Conservatorio Tartini

LOLA 2008→
Prof. Massimo Parovel (Conservatorio
Tartini Director and project supervisor)
Prof. Paolo Pachini (Conservatorio Tartini;
project coordinator)
Eng. Carlo Drioli (Conservatorio Tartini,
UNIUD; software development)
L O L A
GÉANT 10G Fibre Map
Prof. Nicola Buso (Conservatorio Tartini;
audio engineering, musical advice and
testing)
LOw LAtency
audio visual
streaming system
Dr. Claudio Allocchio (GARR; network
engineering and testing)
Backbone Fibre in GARR-X
More informations at the Conservatorio
Tartini website:
http://www.conservatorio.trieste.it/artistica/
lola-project/
Trieste MMXII
© Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe
Tartini - Via Carlo Ghega, 12 - Trieste
A distance musical
interactive performance
and education A/V
s t r e a m i n g s y s t e m
L O w L A t e n c y
a u d i o
v i s u a l
streaming system
A
d i s t a n c e
m u s i c a l
interactive performance and
education A/V streaming s y s t e m
LOLA project aims to enable real time
musical performances where musicians
are physically located in remote sites,
connected by advanced network
services, like the ones provided by the
NRENs and GEANT and other
International backbones. The project
motivation comes directly from
musicians who are currently engaged
into many geographically distributed
activities (Concerts, MasterClasses,
Teaching, Recording Sessions, etc.)
which require them a lot of travel and
result in a big time waste.
LOLA provides a tool which permits
musicians to perform many more
rehearsals before a concert, for
example, giving them much more time
to refine the performance before they
join together for the event; they can
engage in MasterClasses teaching
students around the world even when
they are located in distant sites, including
the ability to perform together with the
student during the lesson, and enabling
many more students to participate
without the need of facing a travel; they
can take part in recording sessions
without moving to the recording studio,
etc.
But LOLA provides also the ability to
perform real concerts for the public, with
distributed performers, and distributed
audience, too. It thus opens a new fully
unexplored performance scenario, with
new challenges and new opportunities.
LOLA is a project developed by
Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe
Ta r t i n i f r o m Tr i e s t e ( I t a l y ) i n
collaboration with GARR, the Italian
Research and Academic Network, and
was conceived in 2005 after a
demonstration of the first intercontinental
viola MasterClass between the GARR
National Userʼs Conference in Pisa
(Italy), and the New World Symphony
music academy in Miami (USA).
The first public demonstration of the
system was succesfully organized in
N o v e m b e r 2 0 11 b e t w e e n t h e
Conservatorio Tartini site ( which is
connected to GARR backbone on a dark
fiber, with a dedicated 1G lambda
reserved for LOLA provided by the
Trieste Research Metropolitan Optical
Network “Lightnet”) and the IRCAM site
in Paris, connected to RENATER also at
1Gb (general use).
Other institutions are now participating
in a wider experimentation of LOLA
around European NRENs and Internet2.
LOLA PARTNERS
● Northern Illinois University School of
Music - DeKalb, IL, USA
● CESNET - Czech Republic Research and
Education Network - Praha, CZ
● New World Symphony - America's
Orchestral Academy - Miami Beach, FL,
USA
● Internet2 networking consortium Washington, DC, USA
● Università degli Studi di Cassino e del
Lazio Meridionale - Cassino, IT
● JAnet - UK Education and Research
Network - Oxford, Didcot, UK
● Universidade de São Paulo CMU, Departamento de Música - São
Paulo, Brasil
● Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of the Arts - Troy, NY, USA
● MAGPI - Mid-Atlantic Gigapop in
Philadelphia for Internet2 - Multimedia
Service - Philadelphia, PA, USA
● Edinburgh Napier University, School of
Arts and Creative Industries, Music department