Sunday 10 February 2008

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse concert performance and orchestral investigations

Hi all,

its a great joy to announce this years opening concert performance and investigations of Avatar Orchestra Metaverse here tonite, yiiiip!

AOM plays WEE.NO.KRESH of our Bingo Onomatopoeia on the space deck of art.think.box, yeah - loking forward to that event in allegro and even dancable, so to say.

Before they play RUE BLANCHE by the father of the orchestra Miulew Takahe on a remote oil rig as investigations no 5 and after playing at one of the orchestras homeplaces art.think.box (where it all began ;-)) they continue onZKMs YOUniverse islands with FRAGULA, first time only flying as orchestral investigations no 6. make sure to stop all other sound and media stream and enjoy the greatest listening experience by moving around.

programme note of the orchestra (incl. SLurls)

DirectorsLounge 2008 "Live from Second Life 1"
curated by Olga Wunderlich

starting time : 2pm SLT which translates into 11pm CET (23.00)

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse / AOM

RUE BLANCHE by Miulew Takahe
performed at http://slurl.com/secondlife/ANWR/102/168/41

This piece is written for AOM during march and april 2007. Rue
Blanche is to be performed in Second Life with seven or more avatar
players and one conductor. Preferred instrument to play the piece with
is the instruments of Bingo Onomatopoeia, called sineHUDs. The piece
is exploring the natural sinus tone series and the relations to
beating frequencies and risset tones. Additional selected "found
sounds" are to be played with the sound textures that the sinus tones
generates.
Miulew Takahe's composition Rue Blanche, as performed by the Avatar
Orchestra Metaverse, was a winner in the 2007 version of Audiospace,
a biannual web-based soundart project hosted by Canada's Open Space
Arts Society. The work was judged to be the work with the most
elegant sonic colour. ( http://openspace.ca/web/index.php?itemid=71 )


WEE.NO.KRESH by Bingo Onomatopoeia
performed at http://slurl.com/secondlife/ANWR/102/168/41

WNK was written in may and june 2007 with the idea of creating a
spatial sound experience for avatars with parts of the aviophone being
free flying sound spheres distributing the sound. It was premiered at
PGup as a mixed reality setup on Virtual Haidplatz / Odyssey and the
Notice Gallery in Deptford curated by Spinster Voom.


FRAGULA by Miulew Takahe
performed at http://slurl.com/secondlife/ANWR/102/168/41
(advice : pls turn off your media stream on YOUniverse Island not to
be distracted by ZKM video voices.)

Written in 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.
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.

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