The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse has been invited to present a live performance at the Vector Game Art Festival in Toronto, Canada on February 23, 2014.
In preparation for this event, the AOM collective's globally networked mind has pulled together ideas from its almost seven years' of working together to create a story that links its soundart and music origins with the virtual possibilities of networked performance art, theatre, games, and breath-guided telematics.
From the Vector Program listing:
"For this special performance, debuting at Vector 2014, the AOM’s Humming Pera (aka Tina Pearson) will be conducting the performance live at Interaccess, with seven other members of the Orchestra dialling in from around the world to perform with virtual helicopters and custom designed audiovisual instruments inside a whimsical virtual environment. This special performance will feature new collaborations created by the Orchestra specifically for the Vector Game Art Festival, and will include a live video stream of the audience on screen within the virtual environment, inviting interaction and awareness between the telematic performers and their spectators.
Team Vector is very excited for this unique performance, which pushes the boundaries of online interaction, the utility of MMOs and our aural perceptions of virtual environments."
Frieda Korda, aka Frieda Kuterna (Antwerp, Belgium)
Groucho Parx, aka Brenda Hutchinson (Brooklyn & San Francisco, USA)
Groucho Parx, aka Brenda Hutchinson (Brooklyn & San Francisco, USA)
Gumnosophistai Nurmi, aka Leif Inge (Oslo, Norway)
Humming Pera, aka Tina M. Pearson (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Lizsolo Mathilde, aka Liz Solo (St. John's, Nfld., Canada)
Maxxo Klaar, aka Max D. Well (Regensburg, Germany) Humming Pera, aka Tina M. Pearson (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Lizsolo Mathilde, aka Liz Solo (St. John's, Nfld., Canada)
Miulew Takahe, aka Björn Eriksson (Sollefteå, Sweden)
Paco Mariani, aka Chris Wittkowsky (Regensburg, Germany)
Compositional elements and/or custom instruments by
Miulew Takahe, aka Björn Eriksson (Sollefteå, Sweden) Composition
Humming Pera, aka Tina M. Pearson (Victoria, BC, Canada) Composition, Instruments
Bingo Onomatopoeia, aka Andreas Müller (Regensburg, Germany) Composition, Instruments
North Zipper, aka Norman Lowrey (New Jersey, USA) Composition, Instruments
Gumnosophistai Nurmi, aka Leif Inge (Oslo, Norway) Composition
Frieda Korda, aka Frieda Kuterna (Netherlands) Instruments
Wirxli FlimFalm (late), aka Jeremy Owen Turner (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Composition
Storyline
Maxxo Klaar, aka Max D. Well (Regensburg, Germany)
Frieda Korda, aka Frieda Kuterna (Netherlands)
Gumnosophistai Nurmi, aka Leif Inge (Oslo, Norway)
Humming Pera, aka Tina M. Pearson (Victoria, BC, Canada)
The Avatar Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the support of its appearance at the Vektor Game Art Festival through a Canada Council for the Arts/ le Conceil des arts du Canada travel grant to AOM member Tina Pearson, who will act as the human-avatar interface at the festival.
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