D_166 sPACE, navigable music

Manuel Abendroth, Alexandre Plennevaux, and Jerome Decock

LAB[au]: laboratory for architecture and urbanism

Brussels Belgium

In sPACE, navigable music, the object or architecture is generated in real time according to the position and movements of the user (mix color, mix image, mix sound). Operating on structural parameters, the integration (recombination) of spatial (x,y,z), temporal (t-movements) sonic (frequency, pitch) and generative image sequencing functions, each interaction by the user, displacement, transforms this visual and sonic environment. In addition, the recording of movements allows users to produce a travelling according to camera movements, montage and image sequencing. The established relation between the spatial, visual and sonic formalization processes and the editable interactivity of users leads to an experience, combining architecture, music and cinematic techniques through movement patterns. The 'Navigable Music' thus constitutes a space, in which the user experiments cyberspace by dropping sounds into space, mixing music throughout space and navigation, record its movements to produce an animation, a travelling in its sonic space architecture, a kinetic music clip.

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