Since May 2014, Kent Bye has published over 1000 Voices of VR podcast interviews featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality. He's an oral historian, experiential journalist, & aspiring philosopher, helping to define the patterns of immersive storytelling, experiential design, ethical frameworks, & the ultimate potential of XR.
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#1066: “Composition” is an Amazingly Delightful Interactive Music Experience Installation with Projection Mapping
One of my favorite experiences from SXSW was Vincent Morisset’s Composition, which is a physical installation of a table with blocks that serves as the interface of a interactive music piece that continually shifts the algorithm for how it generates the music. It’s got some great beats and tunes that manages to always sound great while still giving the users the ability to modulate and shape the music through how they distribute the blocks on the table. It’s a remarkably elegant experience that is able to tap into some deeply immersive and delightfully amazing interactions. There’s a physicality to this experience that goes beyond the pure VR or AR experiences that we’ve been enjoying from the comforts of our home, and also taps into some unique social dynamics as an experience that also works well with more than one person. I talk with the director of the piece, Vincent Morisset about how he developed this as a part of an artist residency at the Phi Centre, and the evolution of this piece to achieve this balance of agency and novelty.
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Music: Fatality