Fragula, avatar orchestra metaverse @ wien modern 2007

Shintaro Miyazaki aka Maximillian Nakamura (SL name) played with avatar orchestra fellows in SL a mixed reality concerts at wien modern 2007 (24th of November).

http://www.avatarorchestra.org/

composer: Björn Eriksson (aka miulew takahe), june 2007.

The piece is a play with words "fragment", "fragile", "fragula" and "Dracula". The visual part of this piece is made from small and big movements and animations of avatar while having the sound sack being colored in different colours.

fragulasketch

One of the major ideas about this piece is to have the orchestra to wander from a fragile and fragmented digital synthezised sound texture into a more analog acoustic and not so fragmented sound texture, and then come back to where it all started. This is aurally symbolized in the granulated synthezised sounds of sine waves, square waves and sawtooth shaped sounds. Also arpeggiated synthetic figures then gradually transforms into the sounds of an old harmonium with unprecise playing. There is also a transitional sound in between the digital and analog sound sources where a time stretched harmonium sounds gets this role. There is three groups of players in this piece as the different sounds forms chordal sound textures. Bingo Onomatopoeia/Andreas Müller made these programming of both sounds and animations for HUDs.

video by Michael Zacherl

Category:

Education

Tags:

• avatar
• orchestra
• metaverse
• fragula
• shintaro
• miyazaki
• miulew
• takahe
• aom

[transponderfish]

You look great, Maxi ;-)