Hi Roger interesting commentary now, expanding on what you do and are interested in, and I am just wondering how a (physical) body performance, such a Stelarc's, that transposes data to avatar motion/behavior in Second Life (or other 3d immersive environment) compares to external (environment, nature, urban space, light, forces etc) environmental data used to influence and actuate sound and object motion in a dislocated / networked space? and how you work with "music" or sound in this way? Your comment brought back a memory, it's over 10 years ago now, and I was in Toronto at Subtle Technologies, witnessing a beautiful and most curious installation, ""Wind Array Cascade Machine", by Canadian sound artist Steve Heimbecker.
We were in gallery and watched a delicate field of slender rods, swaying lightly, like a corn field would, and they were luminous or light-moving (light emitting diodes were placed on long vertical rods in the exhibition space), and I did not know what made them move or sound so (and have forgotten the sound). what slowly dawned on us was (we were informed) that the light movement and the slight movement was caused by "data" of wind movement captured in another city in Canada – the sensing device was placed on the roof of the Méduse complex in Quebec City, and the data were transmitted by the network and used to control a series of corresponding lights in the Toronto gallery space.. it was quite magical and impressed me. see: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=369 see: http://subtletechnologiesarchive.com/2003/heimbecker.html with regards Johannes Birringer ________________________________________ From: netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org [netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org] on behalf of Roger Mills [ro...@eartrumpet.org] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 1:30 AM To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: [NetBehaviour] Cross-Reality Thanks for you response and links Aharon, I will have a look at these. Cross-reality, sometimes seen as x-reality is a fusion of 3D immersive environments typically seen in gaming, and networked virtual environments such as Second Life augmented by sensor/actuators that bring data from the real-world into a networked virtual environment in some way. A kind of augmented virtual reality i guess. Here are some MIT articles http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5165555 in IEEE Pervasive computing going back to 2009 that outline the way that I am using the term, although they are primarily talking about technological projects as opposed to creative or performative interaction within them, which is my interest. Many of the descriptions you provide suggest elements of these in various ways, although for what I am researching I am primarily interested in this mix of bringing data generated by dispersed light, temperature, humidity and movement sensors into networked virtual environments. Data from dispersed locations might be used to trigger as light, colour or sound ect..or guide musicians through a virtual environment. Stellarc has touched on some of this with distributed movement sensors moving him in a located space.. I am looking at this from a networked music perspective and the ways in which data from these elements might contribute to increased awareness of presence and perception in tele-musical interaction based on a recent collaboration i was involved in http://eartrumpet.org/projects.html#Seeschwalbe Thanks Roger -- Roger Mills http://www.eartrumpet.org http://roger.netpraxis.net "Knowledge is only rumour until it is in the muscle" - Asaro Mudmen, Papua New Guinea. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
