Composer, improviser, cellist, and Stanford University CCRMA director Chris Chafe has helped make real-time musical collaboration over the internet both a research field and a concert practice. His work with JackTrip and his studies of latency show that delay is not merely a technical obstacle: it changes tempo, anticipation, groove, and the felt relationship between players. Chafe will make network time audible, exploring how musicians sense and adapt to delay, when synchrony begins to fracture, and how rhythm can be reimagined as a relation between bodies, acoustics, and transmission paths.

Telematic Workshops is a six-part online gathering for artists, musicians, performers, researchers, and curious audiences who want to rethink what live art can become when collaborators perform across the network.

These free one-hour sessions bring internationally recognized practitioners into conversation with Washington, DC’s experimental music and media arts communities, connecting that exchange to participants worldwide.

Whether you already work online, create experimental media or electronic music, or are just curious about the telematic arts, the Telematic Workshops offer a place to meet, discuss, test ideas, and imagine new forms of networked live performance.

Network Time: Latency, Synchronization and Rhythmic Relation. | Chris Chafe