Sonotrope
Sonotrope is a Virtual Reality installation and performance tool, a spatial music creation and playback system for sound-artist and dancers. It enables one to capture movement as tracks of music, resulting in an interactive music sculpture, a 3D crystallized composition as recorded multi track sound score constellation with a significant visual idiom.
Synesthesis is the title of the first performance based on the Sonotrope installation or system. It shows the confrontation of an on stage creating sound-artist and two seemingly intrusive dancers.
Sonotrope is currently a work in progress and funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Mondriaan Foundation, Tropism and the lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy. It is a research and development trajectory of Robin Noorda at the Netherlands Film Academy together with Immersive Media lecturer Jilt van Moorst, sound artist Alfred Marseille and VR specialist Jeff Shaw. It is also part of the new VRAcademy Amsterdam.
It's theatre performance Synesthesis choreographed by Heidy Vierthaler will be presented in 2019.
Inquiries here.
Sonotrope is a Virtual Reality installation and performance tool, a spatial music creation and playback system for sound-artist and dancers. It enables one to capture movement as tracks of music, resulting in an interactive music sculpture, a 3D crystallized composition as recorded multi track sound score constellation with a significant visual idiom.
Synesthesis is the title of the first performance based on the Sonotrope installation or system. It shows the confrontation of an on stage creating sound-artist and two seemingly intrusive dancers.
Sonotrope is currently a work in progress and funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Mondriaan Foundation, Tropism and the lectureship of the Netherlands Film Academy. It is a research and development trajectory of Robin Noorda at the Netherlands Film Academy together with Immersive Media lecturer Jilt van Moorst, sound artist Alfred Marseille and VR specialist Jeff Shaw. It is also part of the new VRAcademy Amsterdam.
It's theatre performance Synesthesis choreographed by Heidy Vierthaler will be presented in 2019.
Inquiries here.
The internationally renowend media artist Vesna Petresin using the Sonotrope prototype in de VR studio of the Netherlands Film Academy.
Above: Jilt van Moorst demonstrating the very first rudimentary version of the Sonotrope VR music sculpting tool. He draws a color-tone related soundtrack in the air with his right tilt brush and does a scratchy playback with his left tilt brush.
Below: composer Alfred Marseille and choreographer Susanne Ohmann try the first multi instrument rudimentary prototype of Sonotrope. The constellation looks like floating meatballs and sounds like a pinball machine. It is a first user test proving only the principle, so please do not pay any attention to the look and sounds, as they are not designed and composed yet.
Below: composer Alfred Marseille and choreographer Susanne Ohmann try the first multi instrument rudimentary prototype of Sonotrope. The constellation looks like floating meatballs and sounds like a pinball machine. It is a first user test proving only the principle, so please do not pay any attention to the look and sounds, as they are not designed and composed yet.
Above: Dick Rijken of the STEIM Foundation drawing the first soundtracks of Sonotrope.
Below: Very early design sketches:
Below: Very early design sketches:
