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Under construction – contemporary opera in the crossroads between new aesthetics, techniques, and technologies

Kallionp��, Maria; Chamberlain, Alan; Gasselseder, Hans-Peter

Authors

Maria Kallionp��

Hans-Peter Gasselseder



Abstract

Despite of its long history, opera as an art form is constantly evolving. Composers have never lost their fascination about it and keep exploring with innovative aesthetics, techniques, and modes of expression. New technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are steadily having an impact upon the world of opera. The evolving use of performance-based software such as Ableton Live and Max/MSP has created new and exciting compositional techniques that intertwine theatrical and musical performance. This paper presents some initial work on the development of an opera using such technologies that is being composed by Kallionpää and Chamberlain. Furthermore, it presents two composition case studies by Kallionpää: “She” (2017) and puppet opera “Croak” (2018), as well as their documentation within the world's first 360° 3D VR recordings with full spatial audio in third-order Ambisonics and the application of an unmixing paradigm for focusing and isolating individual voices.

Citation

Kallionpää, M., Chamberlain, A., & Gasselseder, H. (2018). Under construction – contemporary opera in the crossroads between new aesthetics, techniques, and technologies. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3243274.3243306

Conference Name Audio Mostly 2018: a conference on interaction with sound
Start Date Sep 12, 2018
End Date Sep 14, 2018
Acceptance Date Jun 18, 2018
Publication Date Sep 12, 2018
Deposit Date Aug 16, 2018
Publicly Available Date Aug 16, 2018
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISBN 978-1-4503-6609-0
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3243274.3243306
Keywords Ethnography, Autoethnography, Semantics, Methods, Design, Maps, Audio, Participation, Ubiquitous Computing, Place, Space, Memory, Curation, Museums, Music, Heritage, Opera, Contemporary Music, Immersive Experience, Virtual Reality, Ambisonics, 3D Audio, A
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1035205
Related Public URLs http://audiomostly.com/

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