The art and ‘science’ of opera: composing, staging & designing new forms of interactive theatrical performance

Chamberlain, Alan; Kallionpää, Maria; Benford, Steve

Abstract

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 poster presents some initial work on the development of an opera using such technologies that is being composed by Kallionpää and Chamberlain.

Citation

Chamberlain, A., Kallionpää, M., & Benford, S. (2017). The art and ‘science’ of opera: composing, staging & designing new forms of interactive theatrical performance.

• Conference Name: DMRN+12: Digital Music Research Network
• Acceptance Date: Dec 1, 2017
• Publication Date: Dec 19, 2017
• Deposit Date: Dec 6, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 19, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Opera, autonomous, systems, design, performance, HCI, Chi, Composition, Virtual Reality, VR, Music
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/901172
• Related Public URLs: http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/
• Additional Information: Published in: DMRN+12: Digital Music Research Network One-Day Workshop 2017, Tuesday 19th December 2017. Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London.