ORB3 - MUSICAL ROBOTS WITHIN AN ADAPTIVE SOCIAL COMPOSITION SYSTEM

摘要

Gesture capture, motion tracking and 3D visualisation technologies have generated many new musical forms, often extending the mannerisms or behaviours of a given performer or discipline, providing new compositional frameworks for real time synthesis in response to action. In many cases these approaches are presented within a single domain, a live stage performance, a site specific installation, a shared networked visualisation of collaborative composition. The reality is that these ‘interactivating spaces ’ [1] whether haptic, [5] tactile [9] or ubiquitous [11] is that they manifest new forms of interaction, between people, systems and the medium of sound. Free Sound can be understood to be an extension of the ‘open work ’ where the base materials for a compositional process are created through a model of exchange, interaction and resynthesis. The resulting output of these activities can be broadcast and disseminated through a range of technologies to both social and private spaces. This research suggests that there are new interaction models and social compositional frameworks to be found in these cybrid spaces, a previously intangible location often dominated by the broadcast and publishing industry. A marketing model defined by revenue streams and a value chain. In the case of socially mediated composition or ‘free sound’ there is still a value chain, it’s investors and beneficiaries are the open source community, the collaborators and participants within such mediated systems and the resulting free sound.