Under construction: Contemporary opera in the crossroads between new aesthetics, techniques, and technologies

Maria Kallionpää, Alan Chamberlain, Hans Peter Gasselseder

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Abstract

Despite of its long history, opera as an art form is constantly evolving. Composers have never lost their fascination about it and keep exploring with innovative aesthetics, techniques, and modes of expression. New technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are steadily having an impact upon the world of opera. The evolving use of performance-based software such as Ableton Live and Max/MSP has created new and exciting compositional techniques that intertwine theatrical and musical performance. This paper presents some initial work on the development of an opera using such technologies that is being composed by Kallionpää and Chamberlain. Furthermore, it presents two composition case studies by Kallionpää: “She” (2017) and puppet opera “Croak” (2018), as well as their documentation within the world's first 360° 3D VR recordings with full spatial audio in third-order Ambisonics and the application of an unmixing paradigm for focusing and isolating individual voices.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAudio Mostly - A Conference on Interaction with Sound - 2018 Sound in Immersion and Emotion, AM 2018 - Conference Proceedings
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450366090
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Sept 2018
Event2018 International Audio Mostly Conference - A Conference on Interaction with Sound: Sound in Immersion and Emotion, AM 2018 - Wrexham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Duration: 12 Sept 201814 Sept 2018

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference2018 International Audio Mostly Conference - A Conference on Interaction with Sound: Sound in Immersion and Emotion, AM 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CityWrexham
Period12 Sept 201814 Sept 2018

Keywords

  • 3D audio
  • Ambisonics
  • Audio
  • Audio source separation
  • Autoethnography
  • Contemporary music
  • Curation
  • Design
  • Ethnography
  • Heritage
  • Immersive experience
  • Maps
  • Memory
  • Methods
  • Museums
  • Music
  • Opera
  • Participation
  • Place
  • Semantics
  • Space
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Virtual reality

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