Re: New Music

Date: 12 Jul 2003 15:09:21 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.songwriting
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"Steve Thompson" <steve@<SPAM>stmedia.org> wrote in message news:<f6VPa.18451$email-address-deleted>...
> I'm working on a piece of music now that has no chorus, prechorus or
> anything. I can't play it to you for reasons I'll explain in a mo but you
> can hear it if you are in the UK July 31st or Aug 1st to 3rd during the
> Stockton International Riverside Festival
This sounds exactly like an exhibit I visted at Siggraph 2000 in New
Orlean's, hosted by MIT. As you walked through different areas the
music changed.You were tethered to a pair of headphones that knew
where you were. I spent hours exploring that one exhibit.
> I have designed an exhibition space that consists of a 14-meter diameter
> installation into which the public can enter
> and see eight large projections and hear 8 sound sources. There will be four
> different exhibitions in this space and the one I am working on this music
> for features virtual reality walkthroughs. I am working on the piece to be
> played back through 8 different speakers so for instance when you walk into
> it you would hear an 8 note riff with every note coming from a different
> speaker. Obviously I am working on it with a stereo set up so I have to use
> my imagination and work on the thing using a diagram rather than a track
> sheet. I'll test it out by setting up in a large room soon. I'm calling the
> tune Tine Space And Reality.
You could easily rebuild your virtual space in VRML and position your
sound via proximity sensors, after your exhibit, so that other people
online can expirience your arrangement. This is a very popular thing
to do with Virtual Reality, and so much fun. You can't do this with a
CD or the radio, but you can show how it works online.
I recently built a landscape(online) that changes the chords and the
notes as you walk through it. The music is built into the geometry of
the scene. I built another (it's not online)one with stairs, as you
climb the stairs the music plays, as you walk around the space there
is more music. It is all non-linear, where it starts and where it ends
is all up to you because the music is arranged in virtual reality and
not on a sheet of music score.
> If anyone is interested I'm using a Teretec
> EWS88MT soundcard to get the 8 separate outputs and I'm composing in
> Propellerheads Reason software. Having great fun with it.
I'd love to hear more about it!
Andrea
http://www.andrearogers.com