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On the cover: A dancer in movement in P.O.E.M.A, 2016. See the free article download in this issue by Kıvanç Tatar, Mirjana Prpa and Philippe Pasquier.
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 Respire: Virtual Reality Art With Musical Agent Guided By Respiratory Interaction
Respire is an immersive art piece that brings together three components: an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment, embodied interaction (via a breathing sensor) and a musical agent system to generate unique experiences of augmented breathing. The breathing sensor controls the user’s vertical elevation of the point of view under and over the virtual ocean. The frequency and patterns of breathing data guide the arousal of the musical agent and the waviness of a virtual ocean in the environment. Respire proposes an intimate exploration of breathing through an intelligent mapping of breathing data to the parameters of visual and sonic environments.
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 Sounds of a world coming apart
Kat Austen hacks instruments measuring ice melt in a reflection on the transforming Arctic and the people facing change with it.
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 Notes from a nearby reality
Chaz Underriner, inspired by Murakami’s mimetic devices, mimics them sonically in Landscape: Home.
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 STEAM-powered robopercussion
John Taylor and Andrew Milne used a repurposed piano and custom code to bring the Rhythmotron to digital-mechanical life.
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AUDIO AND MORE ONLINE!
Only half of the experience is reading. The other half is hearing. The LMJ Audio Compilation curated by Andrew C. Smith, Sonic Commentary: Language as a Wilderness, presents recordings by Manfred Werder; Casey Anderson with Bent Duo; Object Collection; Natacha Diels, Zach Moore and Sam Scranton; Die Reihe; Carolyn Chen; and Sarah Hennies. The audio tracks are available for download. |
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Photo credits, beginning with the cover: © Kıvanç Tatar. Photo © Adriano Fagundes; © Mirjana Prpa; © Kat Austen; © Chaz Underriner; © John R. Taylor and Andrew Milne. |
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