Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
An avantgarde orchestra in an avantgarde world
The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse works with its growing repertoire of compositions made especially for it and the three dimensional virtual enviroment of Second Life that is both the Orchestral home and its contextual base. In the spring 2007 the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse arose to the needs to perform two projects simultaneously, Vicky's Mosquitos #13 by Hars Hefferman and Fadheit by Maximillian Nakamura. When performing, the Orchestra works with audio samples, and there are many ways to trigger audio samples within Second Life. The Orchestra builds its own virtual instruments and installations specific for each piece, and in this way each individual performer are able to trigger sounds independent from one another. These instruments feature sound, visuals, and animations, and a performance of a jumping, hovering, floating, dancing, and twirling Avatar Orchestra Metaverse is a truly spectacular event. The Orchestra does not have a fixed size, and there is an ever changing mix of skills, fields, backgrounds, and generations shaping the Orchestra at any time. As the performers are based globaly on planet earth, organizing the Orchestra in such an elastic manner makes the logistics easier, yet this lack of membership constitution also contribute to the esthetics and the indeterminate processes that makes live performances in Second Life. In addition to the changing body of the Orchestra, there are plenty more factors in play. Even if the Orchestra perform composed pieces and do follow a score and a conductor, the result is dependent on both the performers and the virtual environment in which they play. A unique aspect of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse is its size that makes it possible for them to work with sound in a vastly more fluent and varied way than can smaller constallations. The Orchestra is equally much a tool for performing as it is a vehicle for continued experimentation, and approach Second Life as an instrument itself. Composing and participating for the Orchestra: Bingo Onomatopoeia, aka Andreas Müller (Regensburg) BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom, aka Biagio Francia (Agropoli) Carolhyn Wijaya, aka Carolyn Oakley (Boulder) DeThomas Dibou, aka Detlef Thomas (Regensburg) Evo Szuyuan, aka Brigit Lichtenegger (Rotterdam) Flivelwitz Alsop, aka Tim Risher (Raleigh) Free Noyes, aka Pauline Oliveros (Kingston) Frieda Korda, Frieda Kuterna (Antwerpen) Gargamel Frequency, aka Peter Wong (San Francisco) Goodwind Seiling, aka Sachiko Hayashi (Stockholm) Gumnosophistai Nurmi, aka Leif Inge (Oslo) Groucho Parx, aka Brenda Hutchinson (San Francisco / Brooklyn) Hars Hefferman, aka Harold Schellinx (Paris) Humming Pera, aka Tina M. Pearson (Victoria) Lizsolo Mathilde, aka Liz Solo (St. John's) Maximillian Nakamura, aka Shintaro Miyazaki (Berlin) Maxxo Klaar, aka Max D. Well (Regensburg) Miulew Takahe, aka Björn Eriksson (Sollefteå) North Zipper, aka Norman Lowrey (Madison) Paco Mariani, aka Chris Wittkowsky (Regensburg) Pow Zero, aka Ryan Ross Smith (Berkeley) Saara Edring, aka Seidi Palonen (Helsinki) Wirxli Flimflam, aka Jeremy Owen Turner (Vancouver) Xisuthra Lomu, aka Erik Rzepka (Vancouver) Zonzo Spyker, aka Viv Corringham (Minneapolis / London) Most performed reportoir: Aleatricity (2008 Andreas Müller) Sound Video Fragula (2007 Björn Eriksson) The Heart of Tones (2008 Pauline Oliveros) Video In Whirled (Trance) Formations (2008 Norman Lowrey) Sound Pwrhm (2008 Tina M. Pearson) Sound Video SLippery SLope (2007 Jeremy Owen Turner) Sound Video Wee.No.Kresh (2007 Andreas Müller)
Curriculum Vitae Live: 2011 InnoOmnia, Second Life 2011 Odyssey Art and Performance Simulator, Second Life 2010 Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario – RMIT Creative Media, Second Life 2010 SoundPlay 2010 - New Adventures in Sound Art, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto 2010 Digital Resources for the Humanities and the Arts 2010, Brunel University, London – RMIT Creative Media, Second Life 2010 Museo_Metaverso_Musica – Viareggio Art Project, Viareggio – Museo del Metaverso, Second Life 2010 EduFinland, Second Life 2010 Gallery of Musical Sculptures, Second Life 2010 Sea Turtle Island, Second Life 2010 Electrosmog – International Festival for Sustainable Immobility, Schijnheilig, Amsterdam 2009 Media Playground, De Hoeksteen Live!, Salto 1 TV, Amsterdam – Stads FM, Amsterdam – NIMK – Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam 2009 ISIM — International Society for Improvised Music Fourth Annual Conference, Media Theater, University of California, Santa Cruz 2009 Atelier Alizarin, Second Life 2009 Marathon of Dreamers, Ione's 14th Annual Dream Festival, Deep Listening Space, Kingston 2009 3rd Annual Earthdance, Mystical Mastery, Second Life 2009 Gogbot Festival, Enschede — Fernsehturm, Second Life 2009 ISEA: The Exhibition (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast — Kritical Works in Second Life, Second Life 2009 Ars in Ara, Ara Pacis, Roma 2009 Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University, Belfast 2009 Institute of Santa Fe, Santa Fe 2009 Inhuman Resources, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts 2009, The Whole Music Club, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 2008 Arena, Museo del Metaverso, Second Life 2008 ISIM — International Society for Improvised Music Third Annual Conference, Lamont School of Music, University of Denver 2008 Piksel 08, StudioUSF, Bergen 2008 Hamburger Klangwerktage 2008, Kampnagel, Hamburg 2008 EMPAC — Experimental Media & Peforming Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy 2008 Edges Festival of Media Art, Victoria 2008 Vestfold Fylkesbibliotek, Tønsberg — Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo — Larvik Bibliotek, Larvik — Re Videregående Skole, Ramnes — Norgesbiblioteket, Second Life — The Fairytale Forrest, Second Life 2008 Debalie — Centre for Culture and Politics, De Balie Movie Theatre, Amsterdam 2008 Art.xxX.tenxion, IT-Inkubator, Regensburg — Art.think.box, Second Life 2008 Brooklyn is Watching, Jack the Pelican Presents, New York — Brooklyn is Watching, Second Life 2008 Crosswire, NIMK—Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam 2008 Voice + + Festival 2008, Open Space, Victoria 2008 Stream On You, IMAL, Bruxelles — Super-Collider by AngryBeth Shortbread, Exhibit A, Second Life — ZKM Youniverse, Second Life 2008 Directors Lounge Berlin, Scala, Berlin — ZKM Youniverse, Second Life — Art.think.box, Second Life — ANWR, Second Life 2007 Wien Modern 07, Philiale im Gartenbaukino, Wien 2007 iMDa, International Digital Media & Arts Association, Philadelphia 2007 Eslöv Biennal 2007, A Hall, Eslöv — Virtual Haidplatz, Second Life — Gazira Babeli's Archive, Second Life — Clangers Inventions, Second Life 2007 Opera Populaire, Second Life 2007 Audiospace, Open Space, Victoria — Virtual Haidplatz, Second Life 2007 10. Lange Nacht der Museen, Kulturforum am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin — Art.xxX.tenxion, Stätdische Galerie im Leerer Beutel, Regensburg — Virtual Haidplatz, Second Life — Art.think.box, Second Life 2007 PgUp, Notice Gallery, London — Virtual Haidplatz, Second Life 2007 De Waag Festival, Waag-Society, Amsterdam — Art.think.box, Second Life Film: (Machinima) 2008 Orchestral Investigation #9 Film screenings: 2010 Machinima, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 2010 23. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart 2009 Spekter, NRKTV (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) 2009 Gameplay, Itaú Cultural, São Paolo 2008 alt_cph, Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, København Media: 2010 MusicWorks #106 2009 Spekter, NRKTV (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) The Orchestra have three ongoing cooperations with areas in Second Life; the Odyssey sim, a sim for art and performance run by Sugar Seville / Dynamis; HumLab, a sim which focus is on the intersection between humanities and technologies run by Didge Burroughs / Umeå University; and U21 Global Campus, a sim run by Vixen Wottitz / U21 Global. Where no sim is noted it is either Odyssey, HumLab, U21 Global Campus, that was the performing sim. – all entires in selection, updated april 2011

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

Curriculum Vitae