The Avatar Orchestra Meteverse is pleased to announce the release of the machinima
Rotating Brains / Beating Heart
Rotating Brains / Beating Heart
May 12, 2012
The full length machinima can be viewed on Youtube here
Rotating Brains / Beating Heart
A
virtual reality performance collaboration featuring
Pauline Oliveros, Stelarc
and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
Fifteen
performers, two timekeepers, one conductor
Separated
by geography, connected in virtual space
Avatars,
objects, sounds, images and lights
Synchronized
in real time
Recorded
live at the RMIT Melbourne simulator in Second Life
during a networked performance for
New
Adventures in Sound Art Sound Play Festival
November,
2010, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Machinima
by Steve Millar
Rotating
Brains / Beating Heart
Created
by
Stelarc,
Pauline Oliveros, Franziska Schroeder, Tina Pearson, Norman Lowrey, Andreas
Müller
and
the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
Scored
and conducted by
Tina
Pearson
Performed
by
Stelarc
Rotating
avatar (Stelarc Luik), Stelarc automatons, voice
Daniel
Mounsey
Rotating
Stelarc automatons, floating texts
Pauline
Oliveros
Flying
avatar (Free Noyes) and drones
Norman
Lowrey
Giant
brain sound and images
Avatar
Orchestra Metaverse
Floating
avatars and virtual audio-visual instruments
Andreas
Müller (Bingo Onomatopoeia, Regensburg, Germany)
Biagio
Francia (BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom, Agropoli, Italy)
Brenda Hutchinson (Groucho Parx, San Francisco, USA)
Carolyn Oakley (Carolhyn Wijaya, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Carolyn Oakley (Carolhyn Wijaya, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Tim
Risher, (Flivelwitz Alsop, Durham, North Carolina, USA)
Peter
Wong (Gargamel Frequency, San Francisco/Oakland, CA, USA)
Tina
M. Pearson (Humming Pera, Victoria, BC, Canada)
Norman
Lowrey (North Zipper, New Jersey, USA)
Chris
Wittkowsky (Paco Mariani, Regensburg, Germany)
Ryan
Ross Smith (Pow Zero, Berkeley, CA, USA)
Seidi
Palonen (Saara Edring, Helsinki, Finland)
Viv
Corringham (Zonzo Spyker, Minneapolis, MN, USA / London, UK)
with
Leif
Inge (Timekeeping)
and
Ze
Moo (Additional automatons)
Set
Design
Stelarc
and Daniel Mounsey
Composition
and Sound Design
Norman
Lowrey, Andreas Mueller, Pauline Oliveros, Tina Pearson, Stelarc
Stelarc
Luik Automatons and Animations
Designed
by Stelarc, scripting and construction by Daniel Mounsey
Automaton Choreography
Stelarc
Flying
avatar (Free Noyes) Choreography
Pauline
Oliveros, Norman Lowrey
Avatar
Orchestra Choreography
Tina
Pearson, Tim Risher and Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
Virtual
giant brain 5-Channel Audiovisual Mixer
Designed
and Built by Norman Lowrey
Sound
samples from the human nervous system and outer space
Images
of the human nervous and circulatory systems
Virtual
9-Channel Audio Drone Mixer
Conceived
by Pauline Oliveros
Designed
and built by Norman Lowrey
Sounds
from Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Franziska Schroeder, Tina Pearson,
Viv
Corringham and Stelarc
Avatar
Orchestra Virtual Instruments
Designed
by Tina Pearson and Andreas Müller
Built
by Andreas Müller
Sounds
of the human circulatory system from Tim Risher,
in-womb
heartbeats from Lilith and Doris,
mechanical
processes from Andreas Müller,
tuned
sine tones from Tina Pearson
Avatar
Orchestra animations
Built
by Tim Risher
Second
Life performance filmed and edited by Steve Millar
Audio
recording from Second Life by Andreas Müller
Filmed at RMIT Melbourne Simulator in Second Life
Rotating
Brains / Beating Heart was originally created as a mixed reality collaboration
Premiered
at the 2010 Digital Resources for the Humanities and the Arts Conference at
Brunel University, UK
By
Stelarc, Pauline Oliveros, Avatar Orchestra Metaverse,
Franziska
Schroeder (saxophone) and Martin Parker (electronics)
THANKS
TO
RMIT University (Melbourne), OCAD
University (Toronto), New Adventures in Sound Art, Nadine Thériault- Copeland, Darren
Copeland,
Hector
Centeno, Hannah Dean, Bentley Jarvis in Toronto, Canada;
Franziska
Schroeder at Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, Ireland, Dr. Lisa Dethridge at RMIT in Melbourne, Yael
Gilks (Fau Ferdinand), Ze Moo, Dennis Moser, Sachiko Hayashi, Max D Well, Steve
Millar (Arahan Claveau).
New
Adventures in Sound Art Residency funding for Tina Pearson provided by the
SOCAN Foundation, Canada
