William Duckworth and Nora Farrell

WILLIAM DUCKWORTH is a composer, performer, author, and teacher, whose work is known worldwide. The recipient of four NEA and NEH fellowships, he is the founder of Postminimalism and his Time Curve Preludes for piano define the style. In 1997, Duckworth and media artist and programmer Nora Farrell began Cathedral (http://cathedral.monroestreet.com), the first interactive work of music and art on the web. The project features a website; new virtual instruments, including the PitchWeb (www.pitchweb.net); and the Cathedral Band, a worldwide collective that plays on the border between live and online. Band performances have been webcast from Australia, Japan,and venues in the U.S., including New York's The Cutting Room, La Mama, and the Winter Garden. Visitors to the Cathedral site now total over three million. The development of the project is chronicled in Duckworth's latest book, Virtual Music: How the Web Got Wired for Sound (Routledge, 2005). Duckworth's recent honors include the 2001 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Internet Award, and the 2002 Award in Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. His new piece, Tokyo Gamelan, will be premiered in Japan in March. See the Art's Electric Interview with William Duckworth at http://www.arts-electric.org/articles/040827.cathedral.html

NORA FARRELL has been an early adapter since before there were Walkmen. As co-creator of the Cathedral Project she and composer William Duckworth have been exploring the artistic potential of the Internet since the mid '90s. Mediated communication and community are central to Farrell's work. As a member of the Cathedral Band, she is the bridge between the on-stage artists and the Internet band, moderating global PitchWeb players and mixing them into the live concert. By day, Farrell is a software designer specializing in programming web applications for the publishing and music industries, for clients such as Prentice Hall, Pearson, Thomson, Cablevision, Microsoft and AT&T. Farrell's work has garnered awards, including a Clio for a web application for Pringles and the 2001 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Internet Award for Cathedral. Her work has appeared at Streaming Media West.