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A truly mixed-reality-performance, held at IT-Inkubator Regensburg, 26.07.2008.

Details at: http://xxxtenxion.blogspot.com/

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse live performance of PwRHm at the Deep Listening Institute Women and Identity Festival April 17, 2008 in New York City.

PwRHm (2008)

Composer: Tina Pearson / Humming Pera, Victoria, Canada

Instrument Builder, Field Recording samples: Andreas Mueller / Bingo Onomatopoeia, Regensburg, Germany

Set Design: Sachiko Hayachi / Goodwind Seiling, Stockholm, Sweden

The recording is from the perspective of one of the performing avatars, Bingo Onomatopoeia, as he moved through the performance platform in shifting relationship to the sounds of the other players.

Performers:

Bingo Onomatopoeia (Andreas Mueller), Regensburg, Germany
Blaise delaFrance (Biagio Fracia), Italy
Fernsing Llewelyn (Cathy Lewis), Victoria, BC, Canada
Free Noyes (Pauline Oliveros), Kingston, New York, USA
Gumnosophistai Nurmi (Leif Inge), Oslo, Norway
Humming Pera (Tina Pearson), Victoria, BC, Canada
Maxxo Klaar (Max D. Well), Regensburg, Germany
Paco Mariani (Chris Wittkowsky), Regensburg, Germany
Zonzo Spyker (Viv Corringham), Minneapolis, USA, London, UK

PwRHm is an Avatar Orchestra work in progress that explores and embraces the sonic possibilities inherent in the frequency of the electrical currents that power most aspects of modern existence. The piece exposes the relationship between the harmonic series of the North American 60 Cycle AC current and of the European 50 Cycle AC current, and uses the breathing rhythms of the live individual performers, spread across 2 continents, to determine the dynamic between the relationships, sounds and movements of the virtual avatar players.

PwRHm uses 4 instruments created within the technical possibilities and limitations of the Second Life platform. The instrument sounds are made from sets of short sound samples of individual sine and square waves and field recordings of electric motors put together in a HUD (Heads Up Display) configuration by the Orchestra's instrument builder, Andreas Mueller / Bingo Onomatopoeia. The sounds made by the players are therefore not streamed. Each avatar/player is plays, in real time, sounds through instrument controls visible on each of their computer screens to make the combined sound of the piece. The players move through the virtual performance space when they play, giving a changing blend of sound throughout the piece. The avatars also hold semi-transparent globes, or 'receivers', designed by media artist Sachiko Hayachi / Goodwind Seiling, that emit gradations of differently coloured particles according to the specific sound and volume they each play on their instruments. The set also includes two large blue water tanks that hold two of the players, and that provide illumination within the night sky surrounding the suspended virtual performance platform.

This recording was made from Bingo's computer and thus documents the listening perspective of this particular player - the audience in NY receives a slightly different mix.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Live at Wien Modern Festival

Vienna, Philiale im Gartenbaukino, 24.11.2007

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Live at Wien Modern Festival

Vienna, Philiale im Gartenbaukino, 24.11.2007

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Live at Wien Modern Festival

Vienna, Philiale im Gartenbaukino, 24.11.2007
(Photo: Wirxli Flimflam)

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Live at Wien Modern Festival
Vienna, Philiale im Gartenbaukino, 24.11.2007

Photo: Digital Randt

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse Live at Wien Modern Festival

Vienna, Philiale im Gartenbaukino, 24.11.2007

On October 29, 2007 AOM rehearsed for the shows at NOTAM, Oslo, and Eslöv, Sweden.
Everything got so messed up by some technical problems, that it could hardly be labeled "remix". Stil, we enjoyed it, and when I decided to record it, I obviously plugged into the wrong input of my digital recorder. The harsh distortion adds even more flavour to it.
No editing was done here, only some level-adjustments!!!

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse live at the Opera Populaire, Tempesta Nox, SL.
October 6, 2007
Composition by Miulew Takahe (Björn Eriksson.
Orchestral Investigations is an ongoing series of orchestral
investigations of Second Life by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.
These take place as site-specific investigations where the orchestra
reaches out for a new setting and audience, and where the venue and
orchestra add up to make this a very special happening. Some of
these events are also part of mixed reality presentations of Avatar
Orchestra Metaverse and screened RL.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse live at the Opera Populaire, Tempesta Nox, SL.
October 6, 2007
Composition by Bingo Onomatopoeia/transponderfish (Andreas Müller)
Orchestral Investigations is an ongoing series of orchestral
investigations of Second Life by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.
These take place as site-specific investigations where the orchestra
reaches out for a new setting and audience, and where the venue and
orchestra add up to make this a very special happening. Some of
these events are also part of mixed reality presentations of Avatar
Orchestra Metaverse and screened RL.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse live at the Opera Populaire, Tempesta Nox, SL.
October 6, 2007
Composition by Miulew Takahe (Björn Eriksson.
Orchestral Investigations is an ongoing series of orchestral
investigations of Second Life by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.
These take place as site-specific investigations where the orchestra
reaches out for a new setting and audience, and where the venue and
orchestra add up to make this a very special happening. Some of
these events are also part of mixed reality presentations of Avatar
Orchestra Metaverse and screened RL.

This is the first test of an instrument to perform The Heart of Tones.
October 3, 2007

A really quick one - done for a video you can find on YouTube, documenting a streaming -media workshop held by Björn Eriksson aka Miulew Takahe at städtische Galerie Leerer Beutel Regensburg, August16, 2007.
The material I used were streams J0Ri Tokio distributed to the computers of the participants. The web did nice spatial delays, I did recordings, editing & heavy processing. This is what came out...

There is a term in psychology (AFAIK) - "magic thinking" - I had in mind when I was searching for a name for this song...
And yes, we crashed the SIM in SL haaaaard, hehe.
Two dreams came true when the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse successfully completed this piece (we needed two attempts):
- I finally made the world collapse around me solely by playing my music (I tried hard to achieve that with noisy bands for years, lol)
- I invented, built & successfully tested a new instrument in-world, while Miulew's setup of several computers at the Soundroom in Eskilstuna, Sweden was surprisingly stable & in sync. All set to go for further experiments: The Onomatophone was built for 3-D sound, 1-D stereo was yesterday!!!

Recorded and played live at Haidplatz, xxXtenXion, Odyssey (SL) and Soundroom Eskilstuna, Sweden (RL)
Bingo Onomatopoeia - Onomatophone, Perc-HUD
Miulew Takahe - Lead/Vocal-HUD
Avatar Orchestra Metaverse - Perc-HUDs