Re: [-empyre-] Lambda Moo vs graphical spaces

[Adam Nash <adam@yamanakanash.net>]

Hi Helen,
Just to let you know that at the point you joined the festival  
audience, everyone was listening to a live-in-Berlin-in-RL  
performance of a "radio opera" which was being streamed into SL. The  
people in Berlin in RL were pretty much doing what our avatars were  
doing, ie, sitting and listening. It could have been achieved in a  
different medium, but probably without the feeling of being in an  
audience I guess.

It was the last performance in a day-long festival. Had you arrived  
earlier (difficult for us Aussies, I know, I had to give a  
performance at 8am! :) you would have experienced 2 hours of  
audiovisual participatory interactive live performance of the sort  
only possible in a 3D MUVE. By the time you arrived, most people had  
logged off, as it was late night in Europe and they didn't want to  
just sit and listen to a RL stream.

There'll be plenty more though :)

Adam

On 12/08/2007, at 1:19 PM, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:

> i only managed to join a very short bit of the field recordings  
> performance in SL yesterday & found it interesting; but i was  
> expecting there to be some sort of visual component as well (i  
> suppose because it was taking place in an audiovisual  
> environment ... ). it was a bit like being at a mass meditation,  
> with everyone sitting around silently. things greatly improved  
> after i learned how to turn the audio on ; ) yes i am still a  
> newbie! i also discovered the out-of-body experience, moving my  
> perspective further away from my avatar, & even looking at my  
> avatar's face - which connects back to someone else's post about  
> why have avatars at all. why indeed ... i found myself multitasking  
> while listening to the soundscape, & wondering what was the  
> advantage of presenting something like this in SL rather than an  
> audio webcast which would be more accessible ... i'm curious as to  
> where the sounds were gathered from - with SL or outside? and how  
> much of the mixing was done live, how much prerecorded?