'Net Work' from Tetractys New Music debuts on May 15. “When the pandemic started, we had a whole season planned of live concerts that of course we had to totally re-arrange,” says James Parker, one of the co-directors of Tetractys New Music. Faced, like artists worldwide, with a reality that didn’t include live performances for the foreseeable future, Parker and his colleagues posed an interesting question to themselves. “If this organization had never existed and if we didn’t have any history,” Parker says, “what would do with the money that we had?” Looking forward to an unusual and challenging artistic season, Parker and the rest of Tetractys got to work. “We wanted to pay artists. [That] was kind of our number one thing. So we had an open call for composers, performers, and video artists. And we got, I think, over 400 applications from 50 countries. We somehow narrowed it down to nine folks, and we teamed them up. So now there’s three teams of one composer, one performer, and one video artist. And we gave them some money… and we gave them four months. And we said, ‘hey, create something that can only be experienced online.’”